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
Getting ready…
Has it been a week? So many things are in the works that I've not kept up. In the next few days, I'll be posting about an online appearance, an actual in-the-flesh conference (Boskone!), and more. But while I prep for all that — and for the February 8 release of A Cat...
My (virtual) trip to Maine
Thanks to fellow author Kate Flora, I got to visit the Maine Crime Writers blog yesterday. Kate and I basically continued a conversation we began at the New England Crime Bake this fall. Only this time the blog is sponsoring a giveaway. I'm reprinting our conversation...
Oops, not yet!
Yes, Amazon and the other online sites say that the paperback of A CAT ON THE CASE is out today – and out of stock. In reality, it's been bumped back to Feb. 8 (thank you, pandemic supply chain issues)! You can pre-order it though – and, yes, those pre-orders really...