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Clea Simon

Welcome to my site! I’m Clea Simon, author of the Theda Krakow and Dulcie Schwartz mysteries and also a handful of nonfiction books. Please browse around, click on the covers below or the categories at your left, and make yourself at home. Click on the covers below or the links above for excerpts, reviews, and more. I'll also be posting readings and signings as they are scheduled, and I'd love to hear your feedback.


Shades of Grey NEWS:

Introducing ‘likeable, intelligent’* Dulcie Schwartz!

A colleague is dead, a professor is acting strange, and a beloved companion falls silent. With barely a clue, does Dulcie stand the ghost of a chance? Grey Matters haunt poor Dulcie Schwartz. She has stumbled over another body, her professor is being difficult, and her boyfriend has become withdrawn. Worst of all, Mr. Grey has gone silent. What's an enterprising grad student to do?
  With skill and style, Simon fashions a true whodunit ... with catlike grace.Richmond Times-Dispatch
  [E]asily recommendable ... A solid follow-up to an entertaining debut.Booklist

Do you believe our pets come back? If a feline apparition -warned you about a murder, what would you do? Shades of Grey poses just those questions to Dulcie Schwartz. A beleaguered graduate student, Dulcie is studying Gothic books, but she never expected her own life to turn into a ghost story...
  Well paced and tightly plotted, Shades of Grey debuts a promising series.Booklist

These are darn good mysteries.
*Oline Cogdill, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Grey Matters
Grey Matters

(Severn House)
Shades of Grey
Shades of Grey

(Severn House)
Probable Claws
Probable Claws

(Poisoned Pen)
Cattery Row
Cries and Whiskers

(Poisoned Pen)
Cattery Row
Cattery Row

(Poisoned Pen)
Mew is for Murder
Mew is for Murder

(Poisoned Pen)
Feline Mystique
The Feline Mystique
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On the Mysterious Connection Between Women and Cats
(St. Martin’s)
Fatherless Women
Fatherless Women
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How We Change After We Lose Our Dads (Wiley)
Mad House
Mad House
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Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings (Penguin)