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
Review: “The Good Lord Bird” by James McBride
There is more than one way to tell the truth, “The Good Lord Bird” reminds us again and again, and many reasons to cloak it in humor. (first published in The Arts Fuse)The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride. Riverhead Books, 432 pp. $27.95By Clea SimonJames McBride’s...
The Unwavering Gaze — Fabritius and Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch”
The Unwavering Gaze — Fabritius and Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch”(first published in The Arts Fuse)In Donna Tartt’s much-lauded third novel, Fabritius’s painting “The Goldfinch” and the fleeting nature of, well, everything come together for a brief and shining...
Type M for Murder: A Call to (Proper) Arms
Type M for Murder: A Call to (Proper) ArmsJumping genres to support our SF/F sistersCall it dueling futures. Because the battle for the soul of the science fiction and fantasy community is about nothing less, and even if we in the mystery community never considered...










