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★★★★☆ 3.84 • Goodreads

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  • Strong Female Protagonist
  • Social Commentary
  • Gritty Urban Setting
  • Police Corruption
  • Racial Justice

Craving that raw urban authenticity and fierce defiance you devoured in Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods? Let Broken Places by Tracy Clark pull you deeper.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Black female ex-cop navigates corrupt PD
  • Chicago's South Side: raw & unfiltered
  • Systemic injustice fuels every twist
  • Defiant PI who breaks all rules

If Charlotte Justice's Los Angeles felt like a powder keg ready to explode, Cass Raines' Chicago is already burning. Tracy Clark transplants that same volatile energy—corruption festering in the badges, racism baked into the blueprints—and hands you a protagonist who walked away from the department because staying would've meant selling her soul. This isn't cozy mystery territory; it's the kind of hardboiled reckoning that validates every suspicion you've ever had about who the system really protects.

Read it if you're done with detectives who play nice with institutions that never deserved their loyalty.

Raines doesn't just solve murders—she dismantles the lies that powerful men build around them, one savage revelation at a time. The South Side becomes complicit witness and battleground both.

Read it if you're done with detectives who play nice with institutions that never deserved their loyalty.

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What Readers Are Saying

"I was hooked with the wildly descriptive police chase...Clark knows how to set the stage and she pumps the story along..." Linda, Goodreads
"Wonderful Story! Tracy Clark delivered a solid mystery...great character development and excellent narration all kept me invested..." WHL (Bill), Goodreads
"I loved Cass from the first page...Clark shines a sympathetic but unsentimental light at people from all walks of life." Barbara, Goodreads

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