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
Conjure is “a treat”!
Librarian Lesa Holstine's Lesa's Book Critiques is a must-read for mystery fans, and I'm thrilled that she has weighed in on To Conjure a Killer, calling it "a treat for cat and cozy mystery lovers." Here's the full review, but please click through to her wonderful...
The best gift!
As a very lovely solstice gift, Harvard Book Store (my favorite local indie) just sent me the link to the event a truly wonderful and generous group of local authors did of my new "To Conjure a Killer" on Nov. 15. (I was recovering from surgery so couldn't do it). If...
Conjure is “irresistible”!
That's the verdict of Purrs of Wisdom, Ingrid King's superlative all-things-cat blog! Here's her glowing review in full: To Conjure a Killer is the fourth book in Clea Simon’s charming Witch Cats of Cambridge series, and like the other books in the series, the...