by Clea | Sep 26, 2017 | Reviews
“[A] fascinating reminiscence of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.” A woman obsessed with the Boston rock music scene of 20 years ago discovers that it’s not quite what she remembers.Forty-something Tara Winton hates her comfortable but dull job in corporate...
by Clea | Aug 7, 2017 | Reviews
WORLD ENOUGH … a nostalgic trip back to the ’80s Boston rock scene by someone who was there. Simon’s best known for her cat mysteries like hardboiled (or should I say tough mouser?) THE NINTH LIFE but she is equally adept evoking the gritty past of...
by Clea | May 9, 2017 | Reviews
By Jay Strafford A most unusual detective team — a girl and a cat — returns for a second outing in “As Dark as My Fur” (208 pages, Severn House, $28.99), the second installment in Clea Simon’s newest series. Carrie “Care”...
by Clea | Mar 31, 2017 | Reviews
Even though the saying goes “you can’t always judge a book by its cover,” this actually doesn’t always apply with book covers. However, in the case of As Dark As My Fur, the second book in Clea Simon’s Blackie and Care Cat Mystery series, the cover accurately reflects...
by Clea | Mar 13, 2017 | Reviews
Bookblog of the Bristol Library Reviewed by Jeanne Since the apparent death of her mentor, young teen Carrie Wright—better known on the street as Care—has been living in the late detective’s office along with her cat, Blackie. She’s been trying to keep a low profile...
by Clea | Mar 5, 2017 | Reviews
As Dark as My Fur: A Blackie and Care Mystery, Clea Simon. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8682-8 Readers who enjoy the prickly pleasure of stepping into a strange alternate universe will welcome Simon’s hypnotic second Blackie and Care mystery (after 2015’s The...
