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
Thank you, Booklist!
The first review for my upcoming (Nov. 15) TO CONJURE A KILLER is from Booklist, which gives a fun synopsis of the book before concluding: "Becca is a likable sleuth, though her successes are due to her feline companions. Readers who live with cats may find the cats’...
What about the cat cozies?
WHAT'S UP WITH THE CAT COZIES? While I'm so proud to have announced that Severn will be publishing my psychological suspense THE BLUE BUTTERFLY and the rookie reporter-turned-amateur sleuth BAD BOY BEAT (which we're hoping will launch a new series), you might be...
I got to interview Jill Lepore!
From the Sunday Boston Globe. This is maybe a quarter of our conversation. She's a genius! AUTHOR PROFILE Jill Lepore has seen the inside of time By Clea Simon Jill Lepore, professor at Harvard University and author of "The Deadline," a new collection of...