Order of Clea Simon Books
Clea Simon is an American author of cozy mystery novels and non-fiction books. She writes the Theda Krakow, Dulcie Schwartz and Pru Marlowe series. She has won multiple awards, including the Cat Writers Associations Presidents Award. Clea lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband, Jon Garelick, and their cat.
Clea Simon made her debut as a published author in 1997 with the non-fiction book Mad House. Her first novel was the 2005 novel Mew is for Murder, launching her Theda Krakow Mysteries series. Below is a list of Clea Simon’s books in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of Theda Krakow Books
| Mew Is for Murder | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cattery Row | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cries & Whiskers | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Probable Claws | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Dulcie Schwartz Books
| Shades of Grey | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grey Matters | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grey Zone | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grey Expectations | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| True Grey | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grey Dawn | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grey Howl | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stages of Grey | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Code Grey | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Into the Grey | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Pru Marlowe Books
| Dogs Don't Lie | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cats Can't Shoot | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Parrots Prove Deadly | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Panthers Play for Keeps | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kittens Can Kill | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| When Bunnies Go Bad | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fear on Four Paws | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Blackie & Care Mysteries Books
| The Ninth Life | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| As Dark as My Fur | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cross My Path | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Books
| A Spell of Murder | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Incantation of Cats | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| To Conjure a Killer | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| World Enough | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hold Me Down | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bad Boy Beat | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Mad House | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fatherless Women | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Feline Mystique | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Writes of Passage | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shattering Glass | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Masthead | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bloodroot: Best New England Crime Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like Clea Simon Books, You’ll Love…
Clea Simon Synopsis: Mew is for Murder by Clea Simon is the first Theda Krakow mystery series. Nothing is going right for Theda Krakow. Her on-and-off boyfriend’s permanently “off.” The death of her beloved cat opened a bigger void. And the career leap she’s made from copy editor to freelance writer has left her finances and her spirit decimated. She desperately needs a headline to get her life back on track. One day, out for a stroll in her Cambridge neighborhood, Theda spies an adorable stray kitten. This charmer leads Theda to an old woman holed up in a decrepit house full of cats. Is this one of those “crazy cat ladies,” a classic hoarder, is the old woman a neighbourhood do-gooder or is this the story to catapult Theda out of the dumps? But when she returns to interview Lillian Helmhold, Theda finds her fascinating subject dead of an apparent accident. The neighbours are celebrating, the police aren’t interested, and the cats are sent to a shelter. Is this the end of the story? Not for Theda – one or two things don’t compute. So Theda marshals her investigative journalism skills to turn gumshoe.