Winter is hard in Beauville, where the melting snow can reveal much more than last season’s dead leaves.

The dead don’t keep pets. So when Pru Marlowe gets a call about a kitten, she doesn’t expect to find the cuddly creature playing beside the cooling body of a prominent lawyer

When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn’t expect to find a body.

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.

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.

Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic.

There's trouble brewing in the woods of Beauville, and the only witness isn't talking.

When she finds a body near a snared bear, Pru has only her strange ability to "hear" what animals are thinking – and her crotchety tabby Wallis – to help her avoid a deadly trap...