Clea Simon Books in Order

Part memoir and part reported nonfiction, this book grows out of Simon's experience with siblings living with schizophrenia. It looks hard at guilt, fear, family strain, and the long shadow of serious mental illness.

Drawing on her own loss and many other women's stories, Simon looks at how daughters change after their fathers die. The book is thoughtful, intimate, and focused on grief, identity, and what comes next.

Simon blends reporting, history, and personal experience to explore why so many women form such powerful bonds with cats. It is part cultural study, part memoir, and full of feline stories.

Low on money and looking for a story, Theda follows a stray kitten to an elderly woman living with a houseful of cats. When the woman dies, Theda starts digging and finds a far messier truth.

Show cats are being stolen around Boston, and Theda cannot let the case go when a kind breeder falls under suspicion. Her search soon crosses murder, blackmail, and the local music scene.

A hit and run death tied to feral cat rescue pulls Theda into a winter investigation she did not want. As tensions rise and Musetta goes missing, the case turns personal fast.

When shelter cats start getting sick, Theda thinks it may be an accident until the politics turn ugly. Then she lands at a murder scene with blood on her hands and has to save herself and the cats.

Harvard grad student Dulcie is grieving the loss of her cat Mr Grey when she finds her subletter murdered. A possible ghost, a hacking scandal, and a murder charge make her summer far worse.

Back in her Berkshires hometown, animal behaviorist Pru Marlowe is drawn into a killing when a traumatized pit bull seems to be the only witness. Her secret ability to hear animals makes her useful, and vulnerable.

Dulcie finds a fellow graduate student dead on her adviser's front steps just as her thesis problems are piling up. With her mother's ominous dreams and little help from her cats, she is forced into another dangerous investigation.

Midterms are bad enough before a student goes missing and a professor ends up dead. Dulcie's thesis, her mischievous kitten, and the ghost of Mr Grey all collide in a case full of campus secrets.

When a wealthy man's white Persian appears to have fired the shot that killed him, Pru knows the story cannot be that simple. To solve it, she has to look past gossip, money, and one very uncooperative cat.

A missing rare book kicks off a messy case involving murder, academic fraud, and bad timing for Dulcie. With even her feline allies distracted, she has to rely on her own wits more than ever.

Dulcie's academic rival is threatening her thesis, and then turns up dead soon after Dulcie joked about killing her. Nightmares, suspicion, and cryptic help from Mr Grey leave Dulcie fighting for both her work and her freedom.

Late at night, Dulcie hears what sounds like a wolf and sees something deeply unsettling on campus. By morning a woman who looks like her has been brutally attacked, and the case turns eerier from there.

Pru is asked to retrain a foul-mouthed African gray after its owner's death, but the bird seems to be repeating a murder. With only scattered clues from people and pets, she has to decide whether the parrot really heard the truth.

A major literature conference should be good for Dulcie's career, until a paper is sabotaged and a visiting professor vanishes. Academic egos, strange sightings, and a crowded field of rivals make this campus case especially knotty.

Walking a service dog, Pru stumbles onto the mauled body of a young woman. Rumors of a big cat sweep the Berkshires, but human motives look far more dangerous as another woman disappears.

A night at an experimental theater turns grim when an actress is found murdered after the show. Dulcie has to navigate backstage rivalries, money troubles, and performance tricks while a cat mascot prowls the edges of the mystery.

Spring break leaves Cambridge quiet, but Dulcie cannot ignore an injured former student clutching a valuable missing book. As he becomes the prime suspect in local break-ins, her Gothic research starts pointing toward something far more dangerous.

A call about a stray kitten leads Pru to the body of a powerful lawyer and a family already fighting over his money. With the kitten under suspicion and tempers rising, she has to sort grief from murder.

After saying she could kill Professor Fenderby, Dulcie is horrified to find him dead in his office. With her scholarship under attack and suspicion closing in, she has to clear her name before the case wrecks her future.

Rescued from a flood by a pink-haired girl named Care, Blackie wakes in a blighted city with only scraps of memory. As Care hunts her mentor's killer, the cat narrator begins to suspect his own past matters too.

Pru is busy with a troubled wild rabbit when a rich, obnoxious tourist is murdered in Beauville. A pampered dog, an art theft, and dangerous old connections drag her into a case she would rather avoid.

Care takes what seems like a simple surveillance job from a factory owner, but Blackie knows the man is hiding something. In their harsh city, a small lie can open onto a much darker and deadlier truth.

When an old friend dies in what looks like an accident, Tara Winton starts asking questions about Boston's punk past. Her search uncovers buried loyalties, another death, and the high cost of nostalgia.

Newly single and out of work, Becca throws herself into learning witchcraft in Cambridge. She does not realize her three cats hold the real magic until a coven secret and a murder pull her into danger.

Care's detective business is finally growing, but two new clients bring more questions than answers. As Blackie senses links to his lost past, a waterfront death pulls them into a case shaped by lies, memory, and survival.

Pru Marlowe is called to help an illegally trapped bear and ends up in a tangle of death, missing pets, and woods full of danger. Even with Wallis at her side, Beauville feels far more threatening than usual.

Becca is thrilled when new clients finally bring real work to her fledgling witchy life. But a dead man, a missing poisonous root, and the uneasy instincts of her three magical cats turn the case into something much more dangerous.

Musician Gal returns to Boston for a memorial gig and sees a face she hoped never to see again. When a man is found murdered behind the club and her friend's widower is blamed, she digs into old loyalties and darker truths from the music world.

A tortoiseshell kitten leads Becca to a dead body and straight into suspicion herself. With her cheating ex tied to a spyware scandal and danger closing in, she needs help from the witch cats more than ever.

Rookie reporter Em Kelton is tired of small crime briefs and starts seeing a pattern in a string of street killings. Chasing the story through Boston could finally make her name, or get her killed.

Greg thinks he has found the perfect future when he falls for artist Anya in Boston. But as their relationship deepens, secrets, control, and competing versions of the truth turn the romance into something much darker.