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Cats Can't Shoot:
A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir

This event includes a book signing

Date

Apr
19
Thursday
April 19, 2012
7:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome back journalist and author CLEA SIMON for a reading of her latest addition to the Pru Marlowe series, Cats Can't Shoot.

When Pru Marlowe gets the call that there’s been a cat shooting, she’s furious. Animal brutality is the one thing that this tough animal psychic won’t stand for, and in her role as a behaviorist she’s determined to care for the traumatized pet. But when Pru finds out that the cat did the shooting – accidentally setting off a rare dueling pistol – she realizes something else is going on. Could the white Persian really have killed her owner – or did the whole bloody mess have something to do with that pricey collectible? With the white cat turning a deaf ear to her questions, Pru must tune in to Beauville’s other pampered residents – from the dead man’s elite social set to their equally spoiled pets – and learn the truth before her ex, a former New York cop, gets too close. In a world where value is determined by a price tag, only Pru Marlowe and her trusty tabby Wallis can figure out if this was a case of feline felony – or if some human has set the Persian up to be the ultimate cat’s paw.

Clea Simon
Clea Simon

Clea Simon

Clea Simon is the Boston Globe-bestselling author of three nonfiction books and 31 mysteries. Prior to launching a new series with the amateur sleuth heroine of Bad Boy Beat, her crime fiction has been largely divided between cozy mysteries (most recently To Conjure a Killer) and psychological suspense, including the recent Hold Me Down (a Massachusetts Center for the Book “must read”). A graduate of Harvard University, she has contributed to publications ranging from Salon.com and Harvard Magazine to Rolling Stone, Yankee, and The New York Times. Born and raised in New York, she now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband, the writer Jon S. Garelick. Find her at www.cleasimon.com, @Clea_Simon (Twitter), and @cleasimon_author (IG).

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