Welcome
I’m Clea Simon, author of
- psychological suspense novels Bad Boy Beat and Hold Me Down
- rock ‘n’ roll noir World Enough
- Theda Krakow mysteries
- Dulcie Schwartz mysteries
- Pru Marlowe mysteries
- Witch Cats of Cambridge mysteries
- Blackie & Care mysteries
- A handful of nonfiction books
Please browse around and make yourself at home. I’d love to see you at one of my events, and I’m always happy to hear your feedback.
As featured in the Wall Street Journal and on NPR
Praise for Hold me Down
Provocative, moving, and suspenseful
Gripping and intense…darkly suspenseful
Pitch-perfectly dark psychological suspense
Cracking plot in a rich setting… perfection
Powerfully written and compulsively readable
Powerful…hits you like a punch in the heart
A justice-gets-done story that you can’t put down.
Raw and compelling suspense novel
Recent Blog POsts
“How to Talk to a Cancer Patient”
That was my suggestion for a headline for this op-ed (i.e., a signed opinion piece), which ran in today's Boston Globe. I wrote it over a month ago, and I'm happy to say the good news still holds true – and the book mentioned at the end of the piece (in my "signer")...
Bad Boy Beat super sale!
Wow, this is great! For a VERY LIMITED TIME, the ebook of BAD BOY BEAT is on sale for only 99 cents! Why not treat yourself? (Here's the link again: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Boy-Beat-Clea-Simon-ebook/dp/B0CLKZC3Q7/ ) Want to know more about this fun, fast, and...
Pre-order THE BUTTERFLY TRAP
GET READY! "The Butterfly Trap" – a dark, sexy suspense perfect for our times - is on its way.... Anya and Greg seem to be the golden couple, until dark secrets come to light and unleash inevitable devastation in this slow-burn he said/she said psychological suspense...