Winter is hard in Beauville, where the melting snow can reveal much more than last season’s dead leaves.

When cats start getting sick, feline-loving freelance writer Theda Krakow suspects an accident is to blame. But her shelter-owning rocker buddy Violet claims the contaminated kibble was poisoned.

Introducing Blackie, an unusual feline hero, and his companion Care in the first of this dark new mystery series.

When an animal rights activist is killed by a hit-and-run driver on an icy Cambridge street, music critic Theda Krakow can’t get too upset.

The dead don’t keep pets. So when Pru Marlowe gets a call about a kitten, she doesn’t expect to find the cuddly creature playing beside the cooling body of a prominent lawyer

Someone is stealing show cats, and when a kindly breeder is implicated, Theda Krakow determines to uncover the truth. But when Theda is attacked and her pals start acting strange, the feline-friendly freelance writer realizes that more than pedigree pusses are at stake - and that not all the competition is in the ring.

When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn’t expect to find a body.

Theda Krakow is in a funk. She desperately needs a headline to get her life back on track.