Cat’s Got Her Pen

Clea Simon’s first Theda Krakow mystery, Mew Is for Murder, has been awarded the Cat Writers’ Association’s Muse Medallion for Fiction as well as the association’s President’s Award, which is selected from Muse Medallion winners in all categories. These include not only works of fiction, but television and radio programs, and non-fiction books and articles.

Mew Is for Murder was published by Poisoned Pen Press in 2005. Publishers Weekly called the book “an auspicious fiction debut with a well-plotted cat mystery that’s not your usual four-footed cozy caper,” while Kirkus said, “Newcomer Simon’s exploration of the real-life relations between women and cats gives her and her complicated heroine an edge on other ailurophiles.”

The second book in the series, Cattery Row, was published in August of this year.