Simon, Clea

Becca Colwin is on her way home from work at Charm and Cherish when she follows a stray kitten down an alley to a dead body. The police find a connection between Becca and the victim, putting Becca under suspicion. It seems Becca's cheating ex, Jeff, is working on a new type of spyware and now Becca is involved. Fortunately, her new kitten seems to have powers that could help Becca find the killer and clear her name.

Dulcie Schwartz, struggling to complete her doctoral thesis on the Gothic novel "The Ravages of Umbria," stumbles across the dead body of a dashing fellow graduate student, and with the loyal ghost of her late cat, Mr. Grey, strangely silent, she must figure out what happened on her own.

Dulcie, a graduate student, upset after having to put her beloved cat Mr. Grey to sleep, and struggling to find a thesis topic, finds her life getting even more complicated when Tim, the business-school jerk she is sharing her apartment with during her regular roommate's absence, is found murdered--stabbed to death with one of Dulcie's knives.

Dulcie Schwartz is sidetracked from her thesis and studying for midterms when a student goes missing and a professor is killed, while also dealing with a misbehaving kitten and wishing the feline ghost Mr. Grey would help.

Animal psychic and behaviorist Pru Marlowe investigates after one of clients is killed and the prime suspect is the victim's dog, a pitbull named Lily.