"Clea Simon paints a sweeping emotional cityscape that will stay with you long after you put the book down."

Dulcie she finds the body of a fellow graduate student on her adviser's front step. The ghost of Mr. Grey, her deceased cat, returns to offer his usual cryptic advice, and her new kitten takes a noncommittal stance toward crime-solving, leaving Dulcie on her own to try and find the real murderer before the killer finds her.

Boston Standard journalist Emily - Em - Kelton is desperate for a big story. As a new reporter Em covers the police beat, which has her responding to every crime that comes across the newsroom scanner. Despite the drudgery and the largely nocturnal hours, it's a beat that suits her - especially with her affinity for the low-level criminals she regularly interacts with and what she considers a healthy scepticism for the rules.

But she's sick of filing short news briefs about random street murders that barely merit a byline, and when she sets out to cover yet another shooting of a low-level dealer, she begins to wonder if these crimes are somehow connected.

With not much to go on but her instincts, Em sets out to uncover the truth behind these sordid crimes. But the more she investigates and uncovers a pattern, the more she digs herself into a hole from which she might not come out of alive . . .

Grad student and cat lover Dulcie Schwartz must fight to clear her name when she discovers Professor Fenderby dead in his office.

Dulcie's having an awful summer. Her beloved cat Mr Grey's been put to sleep, and she's in the frame for murder. But she hasn't seen the last of Mr Grey...

Love, art, commerce, sex... who do you believe?

A psychological suspense novel that plays with gender roles and expectations, The Blue Butterfly is a dark “he said/she said” that changes point of view at a critical point in the middle and ends in a tragedy that may have been inevitable from the start. As much a novel about toxic relationships as it is about suspense, the story unspools like a Megan Abbott take on The Girl on the Train, with a very complicated heroine and some Patricia Highsmith (Ripley) creepiness thrown in.

"Darkly inventive, and full of grit and suspense, The Blue Trap is a deliciously sinister take on he said/she said, sexual politics, and what we do for what—or whom—we love. Truly, film noir on the page."
– Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and With or Without You

"A sense of foreboding builds from the first page until the shocking conclusion of The Butterfly Trap, Clea Simon’s mesmerizing, slow burn he said/she said tale of obsession and desperation. Block out time for this one—you won’t be able to put it down." – Karen E. Olson, award-winning author of An Inconvenient Wife

"Obsession and possession. Authenticity and intimacy. Clea Simon delivers a cautionary and dark tale about love and art, Decisions and consequences, and whether you can ever truly know another person. By the last page, you might think that the three most dangerous words in any language might be ‘I love you.’ The Butterfly Trap won’t be pinned down by easy labels, and you won’t be disappointed."
– Gabriel Valjan, Agatha, Anthony, and Shamus nominated author of the Shane Cleary series

Winter is hard in Beauville, where the melting snow can reveal much more than last season’s dead leaves.

When cats start getting sick, feline-loving freelance writer Theda Krakow suspects an accident is to blame. But her shelter-owning rocker buddy Violet claims the contaminated kibble was poisoned.

Introducing Blackie, an unusual feline hero, and his companion Care in the first of this dark new mystery series.

When an animal rights activist is killed by a hit-and-run driver on an icy Cambridge street, music critic Theda Krakow can’t get too upset.

The dead don’t keep pets. So when Pru Marlowe gets a call about a kitten, she doesn’t expect to find the cuddly creature playing beside the cooling body of a prominent lawyer

Someone is stealing show cats, and when a kindly breeder is implicated, Theda Krakow determines to uncover the truth. But when Theda is attacked and her pals start acting strange, the feline-friendly freelance writer realizes that more than pedigree pusses are at stake - and that not all the competition is in the ring.