Merit Clark writes the award-winning Jack Fariel detective series set in Denver. KILLING STREAK, book 1 in the series, won the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) EVVY Book Award and was a Quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest. KILLING INNOCENCE, book 2 in the series, takes Jack deep into the dangerous world of human trafficking.
Her high-velocity story RESCUE was featured in the anthology Blood & Gasoline from Hex Publishers and her short story HOSPICE, featuring a less-than-sympathetic hospice nurse, was awarded fourth place (out of 18,000 entries) in the 74th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.
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Merit has been shot at by gang members, worn a bomb suit, and broken into a gangbanger’s girlfriend’s apartment. Not all at the same time.
Books containing stories by Merit Clark