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

Parrots will repeat anything – they don’t talk sense. Or do they? When Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain a foul-mouthed African gray after its owner’s death, the bad-girl animal psychic can’t help hearing the bird’s words as a replay of a murder scene. With the only other possible witnesses being an evasive aide, the blind neighbor, and a single-minded service dog, Pru is stuck with what may be a feather-brained theory. Even her crotchety tabby Wallis doesn’t buy it, although she’s more than willing to “interrogate” the big bird, as Pru deals with drugs, jealousy, and a potential rabies outbreak in Parrots Prove Deadly, the third Pru Marlowe pet noir.
  Clever, says Publishers Weekly. Pithy dialogue and distinctive characterizations.   A classic mystery with some modern trappings, says the Bristol Public Library book blog, one which will also appeal to animal lovers.

When Dulcie Schwartz stumbles across the body of Melinda Sloane Harquist, a visiting scholar whose upcoming book threatens to ruin Dulcie’s thesis and who she threatened to kill, in jest, just days before, it’s creepily reminiscent of the nightmares that have been waking her for the past week. And with boyfriend Chris distant and preoccupied, and both the ghost cat Mr Grey and her kitten Esmé strangely cryptic in their advice, it’s up to Dulcie to prove herself innocent in True Grey, the fifth Dulcie Schwartz feline mystery. Intriguing…authentic and appealing, says Publishers Weekly. The best so far, says the Bristol Public Library book blog.

These are darn good mysteries.
— *Oline Cogdill, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Look for Parrots Prove Deadly and True Grey in bookstores near you!