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.
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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
Announcing BAD BOY BEAT and THE BLUE BUTTERFLY
I'm so excited about this and it's finally real! This week, I e-signed the contract – and my new publisher did too. And so it is official: Both my THE BLUE BUTTERFLY and THE BAD BOY BEAT will be published by Severn House, which is now the genre imprint of UK giant...
To Conjure a Killer!
Kitten season can be murder... When Becca spies a tortoiseshell kitten dodging traffic and chases the tiny tortie down an alley she doesn't expect to find a dead body. But that's only the beginning of her troubles in the upcoming TO CONJURE A KILLER, the fourth in the...
Hold Me Down a Mass. Book “Must Read”!
Absolutely thrilled to find out that my HOLD ME DOWN has been named a Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must Read"! This wonderful list means my psychological suspense novel is a finalist for the MassBook fiction award, which will be announced in October. In the...