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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.


Probable Claws NEWS:

Probable Claws has pounced!

Theda Krakow is back! Her fourth adventure in cats & crime & rock & roll, Probable Claws, is now out from Poisoned Pen Press, and it's getting raves: Well- drawn characters, a plot with many strings to unravel and plenty of appealing cats make this another winner. – Publishers Weekly   With panache and perception, Simon delivers another best-in-show entry. – Richmond Times-Dispatch

Meanwhile, Shades of Grey will be published in June in the UK by Severn House, with a US edition to come in September. This new series, featuring grad student Dulcie Schwartz, mixes literature, murder, and – just possibly – a ghost cat. For more info, click here.

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

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