Director's Author Series: Mystery Writer Clea Simon

Meet, Mingle, Read with author Clea Simon author of the Theda Krakow, Dulcie Schwartz, and Pru Marlowe mysteries.

Clea's latest mystery is Cats Can't Shoot. 

When Pru Marlowe gets the report of a cat shooting, she's horrified.

Animal cruelty is the one thing this tough-girl behaviorist won't

abide.  When she gets to the scene, though, and finds a man dead – and

his white Persian only slightly singed, she knows something else is

afoot.  Could the pampered pet have set off the rare duelling pistol? 

Or is the Persian being set up as a cat's paw in a deadly game?  That's

what Pru and her tabby sidekick Wallis must find out in Cats Can't Shoot.

"Simon excels in creating unique and believable animal characters as well as diverse and memorable humans," says Booklist in a starred review, "and this sequel is just as good as Dogs Don’t Lie (2011)." "Readers will relish this fun caper," adds Mystery Gazette.

Clea Simon is the author of three nonfiction books (Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings; Fatherless Women: How We Change After We Lose Our Dads; and The Feline Mystique: on the Mysterious Connection Between Women and Cats)

as well as her three mystery series.  Her essays and short stories have

appeared in a number of anthologies.  She has also written for The New York Times, The Boston Phoenix, and such magazines as American Prospect, Ms., and Salon.com.  Clea lives in a 100-year-old house in Somerville with her husband, Jon S. Garelick (also a writer) and their cat Musetta.

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