Do Some Damage

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...

Richmond Times-Dispatch

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”...

The Conscious Cat with Ingrid King

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...

Bookblog of the Bristol Library

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...

PW on “As Dark As My Fur”

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...

Crazy Cat Lady Mysteries

AS DARK AS MY FUR, by Clea Simon, Cat Writer Reviewed by Mollie Hunt An orphaned girl makes an unlikely detective in a harsh, dystopian city. Aided by a cat with a past, she seeks answers to a cruel case. Traps are set; gauntlets are run, There is danger everywhere....