Panthers Play for Keeps
A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir
The Pru Marlowe Pet Noir Series: Book #4
- By: Clea Simon & Poisoned Pen Press
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Description
When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn’t expectto find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has a good nose that leadsher right to the remains of a beautiful young woman. Despite her bestinstincts, Pru can’t avoid getting involved. The young woman seems to have beenmauled by a wild cat, but Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshirewoods for years. And while Wallis, Pru’s curmudgeonly tabby, seems fixated onthe idea of a killer cat, Spot has been sending strange signals to Pru’s ownheightened senses, suggesting that the violent death was something more than atragic accident. As motives multiply, a cougar of a different sort sets hereyes 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—tosolve a savage mystery.
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The Pru Marlowe Pet Noir Series Series

Dogs Don’t Lie
By: Clea Simon & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
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 her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, the dog’s guardian. Now Charles is dead, and Lily... Read more »
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Cats Can’t Shoot
By: Clea Simon & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
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 shooting—accidentally setting off a rare dueling... Read more »
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Parrots Prove Deadly
By: Clea Simon & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
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 late mother’s pet to stop cursing. The only... Read more »
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Panthers Play for Keeps
By: Clea Simon & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn’t expectto find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has a good nose that leadsher right to the remains of a beautiful young woman. Despite her bestinstincts, Pru can’t avoid getting involved. The young woman seems to have beenmauled by a wild cat, but Pru knows there have been no pumas... Read more »
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Kittens Can Kill
By: Clea Simon
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The dead don't keep pets. So when animal behavior expert Pru Marlowe gets a call about a kitten, she doesn't expect to find the cuddly creature playing beside the cooling body of prominent local lawyer David Canaday. Heart attack? His three adult daughters angrily blame drug interactions, feline allergies-and each other. And they begin to feud... Read more »
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When Bunnies Go Bad
By: Clea Simon
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Winter is hard in Beauville, where the melting snow can reveal much more than last season’s dead leaves. So when a wealthy, obnoxious tourist and his ski-bunny girlfriend surface in Pru Marlowe’s little Berkshire town, she knows she should stay out of their way. The bad-girl animal psychic has to focus on more immediate concerns, including... Read more »
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