Clea Simon

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....

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....

When two new clients seek Becca’s professional services, the fledgling witch detective is overjoyed. But as the new cases intertwine, things grow more complicated. Becca’s three cats - the ones with the real power - can smell something is wrong with these clients....

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....

When Pru Marlowe gets the call that there’s been a cat shooting, she’s furious....

Music-journalist Theda Krakow is caught up in investigating the rise of a dangerous new designer drug that threatens the musicians and fans of her beloved club scene....

When Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain a foulmouthed African gray after its owner’s death, she can’t help hearing the parrot’s words as a replay of a murder scene....

When grad student Dulcie Schwartz hears a wolf late one night she tries to dismiss it, but the noises, the dark building, and an unnerving sighting of her adviser all combine to give her the creeps....

When cats start getting sick, feline-loving freelance writer Theda Krakow suspects it’s accidental. But Violet, Theda’s shelter-owning rock-music buddy, claims the cats’ kibble was poisoned....

When a student goes missing and a professor ends up dead, Dulcie Schwartz realizes that midterms are going to be worse than ever....

When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn't expect to find a body....

When Dulcie Schwartz stumbles across the body of Melinda Sloane Harquist, it's creepily reminiscent of the nightmares that have been waking her for the past week....

The dead don't keep pets. So when animal behavior expert Pru Marlowe gets a call about a kitten, she doesn't expect to find the cuddly creature playing beside the cooling body....

Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic.....

Winter is hard in Beauville, where the melting snow can reveal much more than last season's dead leaves....

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.