{"id":3208,"date":"2012-07-06T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2012-06-24T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T22:23:28","slug":"dogs-dont-lie-by-clea-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3208","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Don’t Lie by Clea Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dogs<\/a>Title: Dogs Don’t Lie<\/em>
\nAuthor: Clea Simon
\nPublisher: Poisoned Pen Press
\n<\/a>Source: NetGalley<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily-a\u00c2\u00a0rescue dog-and Charles-Lily’s person. Now Charles is dead, and Lily looks good for it. After all, Lily is a pitbull, a fighting ring dropout, and way too traumatized to give Pru a clear picture of what she has witnessed. But Pru knows something about bad girls trying to\u00c2\u00a0 clean up, and, with a sense of justice strong enough to overcome her dislike of human society, she takes the case. Listening to the animals, Pru picks up clues-and learns there are secrets in the\u00c2\u00a0 pretty little town that make murder look simple. Unable to tell anybody about her psychic abilities, uncertain at times about her own\u00c2\u00a0 sanity, Pru comes to realize that if she clears Lily, she’ll likely become the prime suspect-or the next victim. While the only creature she can totally trust is her crotchety tabby Wallis, Pru’s got to uncover the real killer-and find a way to live with her gift-before the real beasts in the town savage her and those she has come to love. The first in the Pru Marlowe “pet noir” series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pru’s an animal behaviorist and dog walker who happens to be a natural animal psychic.\u00c2\u00a0 She can eavesdrop on their thoughts.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, she can’t confide in anyone how she can be so certain about what she knows. This can complicate things when it comes to solving who killed Charles and bringing the perpetrator to justice.<\/p>\n

The animals who assist Pru become unique characters. Some of them are more likable than their human counterparts. The plotting of the mystery will keep the reader guessing until the end. Isn’t that part of the fun of reading a mystery?<\/p>\n

AUTHOR\u00c2\u00a0 BIO<\/span><\/p>\n

Clea Simon is a Massachusetts\u00e2\u20ac\u2018based writer,\u00c2\u00a0journalist and a regular contributor to the New York Times<\/em>, Boston\u00c2\u00a0Globe<\/em>, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, Ms<\/em>., Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0and Salon.com. She’s the author of three nonfiction books, Mad House:\u00c2\u00a0Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings, Fatherless Women: How We\u00c2\u00a0Change After We Lose Our Dads,<\/em> and The Feline Mystique: On the Mysterious Connection Between Women and Cats<\/em>. She lives inCambridge, MA,\u00c2\u00a0with her husband, the writer Jon S. Garelick, and their cat, Musetta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title: Dogs Don’t Lie Author: Clea Simon Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Source: NetGalley   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 that her training as an… Continue reading Dogs Don’t Lie by Clea Simon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[404,622,405],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-review","tag-clea-simon","tag-dog-days-of-summer","tag-dogs-dont-lie","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}