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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1957
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Blackie and Care Mystery

1 - The Ninth Life (Mar-2016)
2 - As Dark as My Fur (Apr-2017)
3 - Cross My Path (Jul-2018)

A Dulcie Schwartz Cat Mystery

1 - Shades of Grey (Sep-2009)
2 - Grey Matters (Mar-2010)
3 - Grey Zone (Apr-2011)
4 - Grey Expectations (Apr-2012)
5 - True Grey (Dec-2012)
6 - Grey Dawn (Jun-2013)
7 - Grey Howl (Mar-2014)
8 - Stages of Grey (Oct-2014)
9 - Code Grey (Aug-2015)
10 - Into the Grey (Sep-2016)

A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir

1 - Dogs Don't Lie (Apr-2011)
2 - Cats Can't Shoot (Apr-2012)
3 - Parrots Prove Deadly (Apr-2013)
4 - Panthers Play for Keeps (Apr-2014)
5 - Kittens Can Kill (Mar-2015)
6 - When Bunnies Go Bad (Mar-2016)
7 - Fear on Four Paws (Aug-2018)

A Theda Krakow Mystery

Mew is for Murder (Jul-2005)
Cattery Row (Sep-2006)
Cries and Whiskers (Dec-2007)
Probable Claws (Apr-2009)

Witch Cats of Cambridge

1 - A Spell of Murder (Dec-2018)
2 - An Incantation of Cats (Jan-2020)

Book List in Order: 31 titles



  • What is it with women and cats? The Feline Mystique is the first serious examination of the intense relationship between woman and their cats and of the repercussions that bond can have on others. Richly researched and searchingly personal, The Fel...



  • Nine live... and counting Boston freelance writer Theda Krakow thinks the local "cat lady" Lillian Helmhold will make a good feature story. When she finds the old woman dead on the floor of her rambling old Victorian, Theda begins snooping--as mi...



  • Look what the cat dragged in Freelance Boston journalist Theda Krakow, suffering from both money and man troubles, welcomes a cheesy but paying assignment to spotlight prominent women in the area. She's happy to be able to include a couple of her fr...



  • A DANGEROUS GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE The hit-and-run death of a radical animal rights activist on the snowy streets of Boston appears to be an accident. Freelance music journalist Theda Krakow knew the woman, as did her best friend, punk musician and a...



  • A reporter for the Boston music scene, Theda Krakow has another serious passion -- all things feline. So when her good friend Violet, owner of a shelter for stray cats, tells her someone has contaminated the pet food, Theda digs into the matter. The ...



  • It's getting hot and sticky for Harvard grad student Dulcie Schwartz, who's doing temp work for an insurance agency while struggling with her dissertation on Gothic villains. To make ends meet, she sublets to a new roommate, a ladies' man who winds u...



  • For Harvard doctoral candidate Dulcie Schwartz, the pressure to finish her thesis is murder -- and so is the body she discovers on the steps of her professor's office. The male victim, a fellow grad student, was a brilliant linguist and charmer who h...



  • Nearing the finish line on her doctoral thesis, Harvard grad student Dulcie Schwartz is feeling a little crazy from the pressure. Immersed in a gothic mystery set deep in historic Britain, she's equally obsessed with the present day suicide of a prof...



  • UNLEASHED FOR MURDER Animal behaviorist and pet psychic Pru Marlowe is working overtime to clear an innocent friend of murder. In this case, the suspect is a sweet pit bull named Lily, and the victim is Pru's client Charles, a computer programm...






  • Could a missing book be haunted? Dulcie Schwartz doesn't want to think so, but ever since it disappeared from the university, things have gone from bad to worse -- one of her colleagues accused of homicide, and another revealed as an impostor. To t...



  • Fear, shock, stress -- animal behaviorist and pet psychic Pru Marlowe isn't surprised pretty Persian cat Fluffy is showing all these signs. The police think Fluffy accidentally shot her wealthy owner, Donal Franklin, by pawing an antique gun's trigge...



  • Things look bleak for cat-loving Dulcie Schwartz when she finds the body of an academic rival she threatened to kill just days before . . . When Dulcie Schwartz stumbles across the body of Melinda Sloane Harquist, a visiting scholar whose upcoming...



  • BIRD'S EYE VIEW…TO MURDER Polly doesn't want a cracker. Eighty-four-year-old Polly Larkin is dead, and her African Gray parrot may have been a witness to foul play. The evidence points to the senior expiring from an accidental overdose of meds....



  • DEADLY DISSERTATION A desolate, moonlit night; a piercing howl; an unnerving appearance. Harvard doctoral candidate Dulcie Schwartz wishes her encounter had been a scene straight out of the mysterious eighteenth-century manuscript she's transcribi...



  • 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 when one scholar's prese...



  • When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn’t expect to find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has too good a nose not to lead her to the remains of the beautiful young woman, and despite her own best instincts, Pru can’t avoid ...



  • Graduate student Dulcie Schwartz finds herself in the front row of a murder in the latest installment of the Dulcie Schwartz feline mystery series Dulcie never considered herself a player. But when her friends drag her to a new local theatre compa...



  • The dead don’t keep pets. So when animal behaviorist expert Pru Marlowe gets a call about a kitten, she doesn’t expect to find the cuddly creature playing beside the cooling body of prominent Beauville lawyer David Canaday. Heart attack? His thre...



  • 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 It’s spring break, and Dulcie Schwartz has stayed behind in almost-deserted Cambridge, Massachuse...






  • Introducing Blackie, an unusual feline hero, and his companion Care in the first of this dark new mystery series. Three figures, shadowy against the light. That’s all I remember from my past life, as I am dragged, dripping and half-drowned, from...



  • Winter is hard in Beauville, where the melting snow can reveal much more than last season's dead leaves. So when a wealthy, obnoxious tourist and his ski-bunny girlfriend surface in Pru Marlowe's little Berkshire town, she knows she should stay out o...



  • Grad student and cat lover Dulcie Schwartz must fight to clear her name when she discovers Professor Fenderby dead in his office. “I could kill Roland Fenderby.” Dulcie Schwartz has reason to regret those words when she discovers Professor Fe...



  • A seemingly routine case becomes something far darker and deeper for novice private investigator, Care, and her feline companion, Blackie. Blackie does not trust Care’s new client, factory owner Mr Gravitz, who has hired the young PI to shadow o...



  • This intriguing, hardhitting, intricately-plotted mystery set in Boston’s clubland marks an exciting new departure for cozy author Clea Simon. The Boston club scene may be home to a cast of outsiders and misfits, but it’s where Tara Winton be...



  • The reappearance of an old enemy from the past spells trouble for young private investigator, Care, and her feline companion, Blackie. Care’s reputation as a private investigator is growing and clients are beating a path to her door. An elderly...



  • There's trouble brewing in the woods of Beauville, and the only witness isn't talking. When Pru Marlowe is called to a forest clearing to help with an illegally trapped bear, she finds a colleague passed out drunk, his pet ferret locked in his tru...



  • “It’s Harriet’s fault. It’s always her fault, not that she’ll ever admit it.” So begins A Spell of Murder: A Witch Cats of Cambridge mystery, the first in a new cozy series that mixes feline fiction with a touch of the paranormal, and a l...



  • The new novel in Clea Simon’s spellbinding Witch Cats of Cambridge series! When two new clients seek Becca’s professional services, the fledgling witch detective is overjoyed. Finally, she can use her skills to help her magical community. But a...



  • When a panicked stranger shows up at Charm and Cherish, Becca Colwin feels compelled to help. But when that stranger then disappears, leaving behind her heirloom violin the aspiring witch detective is drawn further into a web of deceit and intrigue c...






  • A riveting work of dark suspense from acclaimed author Clea Simon Gal, a middle-aged musician, is back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer/best friend, when she finds herself freezing on stage at the sight of a face in the crowd. The n...



  • It’s kitten season in Cambridge, and the results can be murder. Becca Colwin is coming home from her job at Charm and Cherish when she sees a tortoiseshell  kitten run down an alley - leading to a dead body. As a c...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Clea Simon has published 31 books.

Clea Simon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, To Conjure a Killer, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Clea Simon, The Feline Mystique, was published in August 1957.

Yes. Clea Simon has 5 series.