Mew Is for Murder — A Theda Krakow Mystery

Theda Krakow is in a funk. Her sometime boyfriend's gone for good. The death of her beloved cat opened a bigger void. And the career leap she's made from copy editor to freelance writer has left her financesand her spiritflat. She desperately needs a headline to get her life back on track.
One day, out for a stroll in her Cambridge neighborhood, Theda spies an adorable stray kitten. This charmer leads Theda to an old woman holed up in a decrepit house full of cats. Is this one of those "crazy cat ladies," a classic hoarder, or is the old woman a neighborhood do-gooder
More important, is this the story to catapult Theda out of the dumps
But when she returns to interview Lillian Helmhold, Theda finds her fascinating subject dead of an apparent accident. The neighbors are celebrating, the police aren't interested, and the cats are removed to a shelter. End of story
Not for Theda--one or two things don't compute. So Theda marshals her investigative journalism skills to turn gumshoe.

Clea Simon is the author of the Theda Krakow mystery series, which began with Mew is for Murder, as well as three nonfiction books, including the Muse and Merial Award-winning The Feline Mystique: On the Mysterious Connection Between Women and Cats. A contributor to such diverse publications as The New York Times, Cat Fancy, Rolling Stone, Salon, Ms., the Boston Globe, and the Boston Phoenix, she lives in Cambridge, Mass., with her husband Jon Garelick, and their cat, Musetta.