Clea Simon
21) World enough
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Boston rock music scene may be home to a cast of outsiders and misfits, but it's where Tara Winton belongs; the world she's been part of for the last twenty years. Now, one of the old gang is dead, having fallen down the basement stairs at his home. With her journalist's instincts, Tara senses there's something not quite right about Frank's supposedly accidental death. When she asks questions, she begins to uncover some disturbing truths about...
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A seemingly routine case becomes something darker and deeper for novic private investigator Care and her feline companion, Blackie. Blackie does not trust Care's new client, factory owner Mr. Gravitz, who has hired the youmg PI to shadow one of his workers, a man he suspects is stealing from him. With his feline sixth sense, Blackie knows the client is not telling the truth - but how can he protect and warn his companion, Care, when his is only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Becca, newly single and newly unemployed, wants to believe she has psychic powers. With nothing but time-and a desire for empowerment-she's studying to become a witch. What she doesn't know is that her three cats-Harriet, Laurel, and Clara-are the ones with the real power. And when Harriet, a cream-colored longhair with more fur than commonsense, conjures a pillow for her own comfort, Becca believes her spells are finally working. Could that be why...
Author
Series
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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 complicated by a history that only Becca's three magical cats truly understand."--Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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 as the young witch finds the new cases intertwining, things grow more complicated. Becca's three cats - the ones with the real power - can smell something is wrong with these clients. But not even Clara, the calico, knows what to do when a man ends up dead and a powerful and poisonous...
26) Bad Boy Beat
Author
Publisher
Severn House Pub Ltd
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Boston Standard journalist Emily - Em - Kelton is desperate for a big story. As a new reporter Em covers the police beat, which has her responding to every crime that comes across the newsroom scanner. Despite the drudgery and the largely nocturnal hours, it's a beat that suits her - especially with her affinity for the low-level criminals she regularly interacts with and what she considers a healthy scepticism for the rules. But she's sick of filing...
27) Hold me down
Author
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer and best friend, Gal, a middle-aged musician, launches her own informal investigation after her friend's widower becomes the main suspect in the murder of an attendee."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 getting involved. The young woman seems to have been mauled by a wild cat - and Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshire woods for years. And while Wallis, Pru's curmudgeonly tabby, seems fixated...
29) Stages of grey
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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. This could be the end of the struggling company, which is also plagued by money woes and romantic rivalries. But was jealousy the reason the performer was stabbed? Or are there darker secrets behind the scenes? And what role...
