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
An interview by Truffles!
This interview almost didn't happen because the book blogger was going through some heartbreak. But the idea of a comforting feline ghost hit home, and so I agreed to be interviewed by the late, great Truffles.Read more here.
Announcing THE NINTH LIFE
This isn't even up on my website yet, but I just got the OK to share the cover of the first book in my upcoming new series, "The Ninth Life":Introducing Blackie, an unusual feline hero, and his companion Care in the first of this dark new mystery series.Three figures,...
Permission to write badly… (my interview with Mayhem and Magic)
"When you hit a snag in your writing, how do you conquer it?"That was only one of the insightful questions I fielded from Terri at Mayhem & Magic. This is what I told her:"I give myself permission to write badly. I say – sometimes out loud – that I can write something...










