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
Readers’ Choice awards (your vote counts)
Utterly thrilled to have my World Enough among the nominees for the Killer Nashville Readers' Choice awards. And if you're reading this, you're a reader – so whether you vote for my book or one of the other great books, please vote! (It only takes a minute). (If the...
Meet your favorite authors here!
Don't you wish you had the chance to ask your favorite authors about their work and what comes next? What surprises them and why they write the stories they do? I know I do, and that's why I'm launching FIVE QUESTIONS, mini interviews with authors across the spectrum!...
Meet Care (of “Cross My Path”)
Dru Ann of the MWA Raven Award-winning Dru's Books Musings "interviewed" the young protagonist of my Blackie and Care series in celebration of the release of Cross My Path. Here's the interview.










