Caroline Slade Mystery
The “Caroline Slade Mystery” is a series of novels by mystery fiction author C Hope Clark. Clark was brought up in several states in the South from Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Her grandfather was a cotton farmer in Mississippi and as such, wherever she has gone her heart has always been in the deep south. As a teenager, she went to Clemson University from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture. After graduation, she went on to work with the US Department of Agriculture where she worked for more than twenty-five years. She would win several awards for her work during this time and it is from her experiences that she writes about the adventures of her protagonist Carolina Slade in the “Caroline Slade Mystery” series. While she loved being a manager in the USDA, she loved writing more and she retired young so that she could become a professional fiction author. She wrote her debut novel “Lowcountry Bribe” in 2012. By 2020 she had more than ten novels in the “Carolina Slade Mystery” and the “Edisto Island Mystery” series. Her novels have been nominated and won several prestigious awards over the years including the Daphne du Maurier by the Romance Writers of America, the Breakthrough Novel Contest by Amazon, the Silver Falchion Award, and the EPIC e-book Award among many others.