Panthers Play for Keeps, Clea Simon
Panthers Play for Keeps, Clea Simon
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Panthers Play for Keeps
A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir

Author: Clea Simon

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2014

Synopsis

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 mauled by a wild cat, but Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshire woods for years. And while Wallis, Pru's curmudgeonly tabby, seems fixated on the idea of a killer cat, Spot has been sending strange signals to Pru's own heightened senses, suggesting that the violent death was something more than a tragic accident. As motives multiply, a cougar of a different sort sets her eyes on Pru's sometime lover, and another woman disappears. With panther panic growing, Pru may have to put aside her own issues—and her own ideas of domesticity—to solve a savage mystery.

About Clea Simon

Clea Simon is a writer, journalist, and regular contributor to the New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Rolling Stone, and Salon. She is the author of the Theda Krakow Mysteries, the Dulcie Schwartz Mysteries, the Pru Marlowe Pet Noir series, and the Blackie and Care Mysteries, as well as a few works of nonfiction.

About Tavia Gilbert

Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nora-adrienne on April 20, 2014

Panthers Play for Keeps By: Clea Simon Copyright: April 2014 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press 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 too good a nose not to lead her to the remains of the beautiful young woman, and despite her own......more

Goodreads review by Imjussayin on February 22, 2018

Panthers Play for Keeps:Pru Marlowe 4 2.5 🌟 Read in numerical order In A Nutshell:Strange things are afoot when Pru Marlow and Spot the dog find the mauled body of a woman. There are no big cats in their small town. And it is not just Pru's love of animals that draws her into the investigation. Seems......more

Goodreads review by Val on March 10, 2020

I borrowed this book for my kindle ap before a plane trip to save on the weight on regular books. I had never heard of this author or series. I didn't like it. I thought it was overwritten. I didn't like the way the cat talked down to her human companion. I enjoy the Joe Grey series where there are......more

Goodreads review by Angie on September 12, 2024

A cozy Evanovich style mystery with animals......more

Quotes

“At the start of Simon’s engaging fourth mystery featuring animal behaviorist Pru Marlowe, Pru and Spot, a service dog she’s training for a wealthy man who is going blind, discover the badly mauled body of a young woman while walking in the woods outside the Berkshire town of Beauville…Pru, whose psychic powers allow her to understand animals’ thoughts, receives conflicting and confusing suggestions from Spot, as well as from her tabby, Wallis. In the end, Pru’s sleuthing instincts guide her to a satisfying resolution of the crime.” Publishers Weekly

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