Flowers For Her Grave

Casey Maldonado is on the run in this latest title in the popular Grim Reaper series, in which the Grim Reaper (Death) is Casey’s entertaining companion. Searching for a new life following the tragic death of her husband and baby, Casey (using the alias of Daisy Gray) works as a fitness instructor in a posh…

The Grim Reaper’s Dance

When Casey Maldonado and Death hitch a desperate ride away from one disaster, they throw themselves right into the middle of another one. The semi in which they are traveling crashes, and before the Grim Reaper takes Evan the Trucker away, Evan whispers to Casey about a stash hidden in the truck that she should…

Embrace the Grim Reaper

Casey Maldonado, who is filled with despair following a fatal accident that took the lives of her husband and infant son, finds herself aimlessly traveling, accompanied by the grim reaper (Death). She ends up in Ohio, where she tries to help the boyfriend of a young woman find out if the woman’s death was murder or suicide.…

Panthers Play for Keeps

When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn’t expect to find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has a good nose that leads her right to the remains of a beautiful young woman. Despite her best instincts, Pru can’t avoid getting involved. The young woman seems to have been…

Parrots Prove Deadly

Parrots will repeat anything. They don’t talk sense—or do they? When Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain a foulmouthed African gray after its owner’s death, she can’t help hearing the parrot’s words as a replay of a murder scene. But the doctor on call scoffs at the idea, and the heirs just want their…

Cats Can’t Shoot

When Pru Marlowe gets the call that there’s been a cat shooting, she’s furious. Animal brutality is one thing that this tough animal psychic won’t stand for, and in her role as a behaviorist, she’s determined to care for the traumatized pet. But when Pru finds out that it was the cat who did the…

Dogs Don’t Lie

Pru Marlowe isn’t your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, the…

Cries & Whiskers

Freelance rock music critic Theda Krakow covers the club scene in Cambridge and Boston. She’s also a cat person, sharing her life with Musetta, a black-and-white pampered pet. When an animal rights activist is killed in a hit-and-run, Theda helps with her project of saving feral cats from an abandoned bottling plant. Tavia Gilbert gives…

The Scent of Rain & Lightning

 Tavia Gilbert demonstrates remarkable range in her narration of Pickard’s spine-tingling thriller set in a rural Kansas ranch community, where mysterious secrets surrounding the wealthy and prominent Linder family come to light in chilling detail. Gilbert’s performance as convicted murderer—and town pariah—Billy Crosby crackles with pentup rage. The scene in which protagonist Jody Linder—a 20-something…