Cries and Whiskers - Softcover

Reporter Theda Krakow is caught up in investigating the rise of a dangerous new designer drug that threatens the musicians and fans who make up the club scene she considers her second home.

Clea Simon is the author of three nonfiction books in addition to her Theda Krakow mystery series. She writes occasionally for the New York Times, the Boston Phoenix, and such magazines as American Prospect, Ms., and Salon.com. Her essays have appeared in a number of anthologies. Clea grew up in East Meadow, on suburban Long Island, N.Y., came to Cambridge, Mass., to attend Harvard, from which she graduated in 1983, and never left. She now happily resides there with her husband, writer Jon S. Garelick, and their cat Musetta.