Clea Simon

Clea Simon worked as a journalist and non-fiction author before turning to crime (fiction). Best known for her series of cozy mysteries starring cat-lover Theda Krakow, Clea Simon grew up in New York, before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend Harvard. She fell in love with the city and lives there still with her husband and their cat, Musetta.

Parrots Prove Deadly

Parrots Prove Deadly

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Series: Pru Marlowe, Book 3
Genre: Pet Noir Mystery

When Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain a foul-mouthed African gray after its owner's death, the bad-girl animal psychic can't help hearing the bird's words as a replay of a murder scene.

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The Feline Mystique

The Feline Mystique

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Series: Nonfiction
Genre: Nonfiction

The Feline Mystique is the first serious examination of the intense relationship between woman and their cats

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Cats Can’t Shoot

Cats Can’t Shoot

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Series: Pru Marlowe, Book 2
Genre: Pet Noir Mystery

When Pru Marlowe gets the call that there’s been a cat shooting, she’s furious. Animal brutality is the one thing that this tough animal psychic won’t stand for.

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Fatherless Women

Fatherless Women

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Series: Nonfiction
Genre: Nonfiction

There is a special bond between a father and a daughter, and when that bond is broken by death, a woman's life can change in profound and unexpected ways.

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Dogs Don’t Lie

Dogs Don’t Lie

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Series: Pru Marlowe, Book 1
Genre: Pet Noir Mystery

Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic.

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Mad House

Mad House

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Series: Nonfiction
Genre: Nonfiction

In classic books such as Girl, Interrupted and When Rabbit Howls, the mentally ill depict their own harrowing worlds. In Mad House we have an account of the devastating effects of mental illness on the lives of those who share their world--the healthy siblings of those afflicted.

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Code Grey

Code Grey

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Series: Dulcie Schwartz, Book 9
Genre: Mystery

Did a down on his luck former student steal a priceless book? Grad student and cat lover Dulcie Schwartz thinks not – and she sets out to prove it

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World Enough

World Enough

The Boston club scene may be home to a cast of outsiders and misfits, but it’s where Tara Winton belongs. When an old friend is found dead, Tara senses there’s something not right about his supposedly accidental death.

"A haunting exploration of the dark side of nostalgia..." – Read more in Strand Magazine's "Five Reinventions of the Boston Crime Novel"

*World Enough has been named a "must read" by the Massachusetts Book Awards/Massachusetts Center for the Book!*

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Stages of Grey

Stages of Grey

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Series: Dulcie Schwartz, Book 8
Genre: Mystery

Dulcie never considered herself a player. But when her friends drag her to a new local theatre company that is updating Ovid with a disco version of The Metamorphosis, the grad student finds herself in the front row of a murder.

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Cross My Path

Cross My Path

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Series: Blackie & Care, Book 3
Genre: Mystery
Tags: black cat, cats, mystery

"Readers who enjoy the prickly pleasure of stepping into a strange alternate universe will welcome Simon's hypnotic Blackie and Care mystery."

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Grey Howl

Grey Howl

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Series: Dulcie Schwartz, Book 7
Genre: Mystery

A prestigious literature conference is convening in Cambridge and Dulcie Schwartz is the university liaison for the event, meeting and greeting some of the finest minds in her field. But events do not run according to plan...

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Fear on Four Paws

Fear on Four Paws

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Series: Pru Marlowe, Book 7
Genre: Pet Noir Mystery

There's trouble brewing in the woods of Beauville, and the only witness isn't talking.

When she finds a body near a snared bear, Pru has only her strange ability to "hear" what animals are thinking – and her crotchety tabby Wallis – to help her avoid a deadly trap...

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