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
He Wrote/She Wrote
I contributed an op-ed to today's Boston Globe about writing gender and the controversy surrounding the new crime fiction imprint, Scarlet: "Most mystery authors have never killed anyone, nor personally solved any crimes. That doesn’t mean we can’t imagine it. In...
Five Questions with Ellen Byron
From Ellen Byron's Cajun Country cozies, you might think she's a Louisiana country girl. In truth, Ellen is based in LA – Los Angeles, not Louisiana – but her time at Tulane in New Orleans gave her the background for the series – and her considerable chops as a...
Make a mystery with us!
Tomorrow (Thursday) I'll be joining Elisabeth Elo, Dale Phillips, and Frances McNamara at the VOX POP Pop-Up Space in Assembly Row, Somerville. But we authors won't be the ones making the mystery – you will! If you haven't participated in one of these Sisters in Crime...