Welcome

I’m Clea Simon, author of
- psychological suspense novels The Butterfly Trap, 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 The Butterfly Trap
Fear and control emerges in Simon’s tense, slow-burn
Darkly inventive, and full of grit and suspense
Mesmerizing tale of obsession and desperation
A cautionary and dark tale about love and art
Recent Blog POsts
Goodbye KISS, an appreciation
“Hey, watch this!” Spring 1976, and the four of us were parked in Phil’s Firebird when he took a mouthful of lighter fluid from his trusty BIC, flicked the sparkwheel and blew. The ensuing flame singed the car’s visor – and his eyebrows – resulting in much stoned...
Five Questions with Shawn Reilly Simmons
Some writers focus on short stories, some on novels. Shawn Reilly Simmons does both. Her cozy series, about the Red Carpet movie caterers, moves about as well – taking readers from one film location to the next. We're lucky Shawn had time to sit down with us today and...
Lippman’s Baltimore
Laura Lippman's THE LADY IN THE LAKE is more than a good read, it offers a truly timely commentary I wrote about this for the Arts Fuse: When President Trump wanted to take down Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D- MD) last week, he did so by deriding Baltimore,...