Clea Simon. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59058-872-7
At the start of Simon’s engaging fourth mystery featuring animal behaviorist Pru Marlowe (after 2013’s Parrots Prove Deadly), Pru and Spot, a service dog she’s training for a wealthy man who is going blind, discover the badly mauled body of a young...
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Clea Simon. Polis, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-951709-26-6
Simon’s pleasing third Witch Cats of Cambridge mystery (after 2020’s An Incantation of Cats) finds Becca Colwin working at Charm and Cherish, a New Age shop in Cambridge, Mass. It’s the perfect place for the aspiring witch detective, even if she...
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Clea Simon. Polis, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-947993-80-8
In Simon’s entertaining sequel to 2018’s A Spell of Murder, Becca Colwin has already declared herself a witch detective to her friends and coven. With the help of her three cats, known as familiars in the Wiccan world, Becca sets out to discover who’
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Clea Simon. Polis, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-947993-32-7
Set in Cambridge, Mass., this delightful series launch from Simon (World Enough) introduces three talking cats—littermates Clara, Harriet, and Laurel—and their 26-year-old human, Becca Colwin, who has recently lost her job as a researcher for the...
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8787-0
Cat-loving fans of grim postapocalyptic tales will best appreciate Simon’s third Blackie and Care mystery (after 2017’s Dark as My Fur). In a claustrophobic unnamed port city, Care, a pink-haired 15-year-old girl, ekes out a living as a finder of...
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Clea Simon. Poisoned Pen, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1009-9
At the outset of Simon’s sprightly seventh Pru Marlowe Pet Noir (after 2016’s When Bunnies Go Bad), Pru, a freelancer for the animal control department in Beauville, Mass., who has an uncanny ability to understand what animals are thinking,...
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8733-7
This intriguing series launch from Simon, best known for her cozy Dulcie Schwartz mysteries (Into the Grey, etc.), introduces Boston journalist Tara Winton, who back in the 1980s covered local punk rock bands for fanzines that paid little but gave...
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8682-8
Readers who enjoy the prickly pleasure of stepping into a strange alternate universe will welcome Simon’s hypnotic second Blackie and Care mystery (after 2015’s The Ninth Life), set in a blighted unnamed city. Bands of gangsters control the various...
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8627-9
Much to the dismay of Harvard doctoral candidate Dulcie Schwartz, professor Roland Fenderby has joined her dissertation committee, in Simon’s well-plotted 10th academic paranormal cat cozy (after 2015’s Code Grey). Fenderby’s harsh critique of the...
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8571-5
Cozy author Simon (When Bunnies Go Bad) takes a turn to the dark side with this edgy first in a series introducing Carrie “Care” Wright, a homeless girl in her early teens who lives on the streets of an unnamed city. Care rescues a drowning cat,...
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Clea Simon. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0535-4
Simon’s uneven sixth Pru Marlowe Pet Noir (after 2015’s Kittens Can Kill) finds Beauville, Mass., brimming with bunnies: Henry, the Eastern cottontail whose strange conduct is troubling his 84-year-old babysitter; Bunny in the Sun, the painting...
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8506-7
In Simon’s mildly charming ninth Dulcie Schwartz mystery (after 2014’s Stages of Grey), grad student Dulcie isn’t looking forward to spending spring break alone working on her dissertation, but when she learns that someone has assaulted Jeremy...
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Clea Simon. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0360-2
At the start of Simon’s fluffy fifth Pru Marlowe mystery set in the Berkshires town of Beauville (after 2014’s Panthers Play for Keeps), pet trainer Pru arrives at the home of David Canaday to find him lying dead on his kitchen floor with a tiny...
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8393-3
Simon’s diverting eighth Dulcie Schwartz mystery (after Grey Howl) finds Dulcie, now a fifth-year Harvard grad student, in need of a break from her academic toils. As a distraction, Dulcie attends a “disco interpretation” of Ovid’s Metamorphosis at...
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Clea Simon, Author . Wiley $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-471-41006-5
When fathers die, says Simon (Mad House), a Boston Globe
journalist, their daughters may experience crucial changes in their lives. Some will feel freed of their father's expectations and strictures. Some will want to have a baby. Some will...
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Clea Simon. Severn, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8346-9
Academic politics and the world of literary scholarship provide the background for Simon’s charming seventh Dulcie Schwartz mystery (after 2013’s Grey Dawn). Harvard grad student Dulcie, who’s been researching The Ravages of Umbria—a gothic romance—a
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8261-5
With the lightheartedness and strong themes that characterize a cozy series with staying power, Simon delivers her winning combination of academic rivalries, student relationship drama, and kitty wisdom in the sixth Dulcie Schwartz mystery (after...
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Clea Simon. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0104-2
A parrot proves a key murder witness in Simon’s clever third mystery featuring Pru Marlowe, a latter-day Doctor Dolittle, who practices in the Berkshire town of Beauville (after 2012’s Cats Can’t Shoot). When 84-year-old Polly Larkin, who lives in a
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8215-8
An academic rival poses a threat to Harvard grad student Dulcie Schwartz in Simon’s intriguing fifth paranormal cat cozy (after 2012’s Grey Expectations). Melinda Sloane Harquist, a visiting scholar, is preparing to publish a biography of the...
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Clea Simon. Severn, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8134-2
Simon’s enchanting fourth Dulcie Schwartz mystery (after 2011’s Grey Zone) finds Harvard grad student Dulcie still at work on her doctoral thesis on late 18th-century gothic fiction and still trying to identify the anonymous author of “her long-time
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Clea Simon. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6992-0
In Simon's spirited third Dulcie Schwartz mystery (after 2010's Grey Matters), Harvard grad student Dulcie continues to work on uncovering the identity of the anonymous female author of The Ravages of Umbria, an 18th-century gothic novel. But the...
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Clea Simon, Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59058-860-4; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-59058-862-8
This fluffy first in a new series from Simon (Mr. Grey) introduces Pru Marlowe, an almost certified pet behaviorist/animal trainer, who to her dismay developed "the ability to hear what animals are ‘saying' " as the result of an illness while a...
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Clea Simon, Author . Severn $28.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6840-4
Sluggish pacing mars Simon's second feline mystery starring Harvard doctoral candidate and nosy parker Dulcie Schwartz (after 2009's Shades of Grey
). Outside the Cambridge home of her adviser, Professor William Bullock, with whom she just
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Clea Simon, Author . Severn $28.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6781-0
Simon's tepid brew of cat paranormal and academic chick lit, the first of a new series, may disappoint fans of her Theda Krakow mysteries (Probable Claws
, etc.). Dulcie Schwartz, a 26-year-old Harvard doctoral candidate living in Cambridge,...
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Clea Simon, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (255p) ISBN 978-1-59058-564-1
Music journalist Theda Krakow once again proves a feisty and determined sleuth in Simon's lively fourth cat-themed mystery (after 2007's Cries and Whiskers
). Theda alternates between the cat world, dominated by her pet, Musetta, and the...
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Clea Simon, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (251p) ISBN 978-1-59058-464-4
In Simon's energetic third Theda Krakow mystery (after 2006's Cattery Row
), freelance music journalist Theda delves into the seamy underside of the club scene and the radical side of animal rights. When Animals Now activist Gail...
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Clea Simon, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (227p) ISBN 978-1-59058-306-7
In Simon's satisfying second kitty cozy (after 2005's Mew Is for Murder
), spunky Boston journalist Theda Krakow and her feline friend, Musetta, are plunged into a crazy quilt of cat-related crime. In recent months, eight catteries near...
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Clea Simon, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59058-165-0
Journalist Simon (The Feline Mystique
) makes an auspicious fiction debut with a well-plotted cat mystery that's not your usual four-footed cozy caper. Theda Krakow, an appealing freelance feature writer, really gets down to "kickin' "
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Tammy Kaehler. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (308p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0238-4
The 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race provides the backdrop for Kaehler’s entertaining third Kate Reilly mystery (after 2013’s Braking Points). Kate’s beau, Stuart Telerday, should have been on hand, but just as the day is getting started, cops...
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