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
Understanding monsters, surviving monsters
Nobody in our high school was completely surprised when Joel Rifkin turned out to be a serial killer... (This essay originally ran on the SHOTS crime and thriller ezine, which you can access here (or go to...
Talking about tattoos over at Mystery Fanfare
She rubs her thumb over the F clef on her wrist. A reminder, faded now, of what she had. The cost … [Thanks to Janet Rudolph for posting this over at Mystery Fanfare! Just in case you missed it, I'm running it here too] Gal Raver, my protagonist, has a tattoo of...
“To be fearless…” (an interview)
To be fearless is to let the creative impulse take you where it will. ... Abby Frucht and I went deep when we chatted about writing, process, and Hold Me Down back in October. The original interview ran on the JMWW blog, and I'm now reprinting it here: NO HOLDS...