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.
Panthers Play for Keeps
When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn’t expect to find a body.
More info →Mew is for Murder
Theda Krakow is in a funk. She desperately needs a headline to get her life back on track.
More info →Parrots Prove Deadly
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.
More info →The Feline Mystique
The Feline Mystique is the first serious examination of the intense relationship between woman and their cats
More info →Cats Can’t Shoot
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.
More info →Fatherless Women
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.
More info →Dogs Don’t Lie
Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic.
More info →Mad House
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.
More info →Code Grey
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
More info →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!*
More info →Stages of Grey
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.
More info →Cross My Path
"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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