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
The Witch Cats are back!
Just in time for Halloween, Level Best Books has reissued the first four "Witch Cats of Cambridge" cozy mysteries: A Spell of Murder, An Incantation of Cats, A Cat on the Case, and To Conjure a Killer. These ebooks are on sale now, too, at only $3.99! Look for a new...
Book Stew features Butterfly Trap
Eileen MacDougal is one of those great interviewers who not only reads but thinks about the books she reads. I was honored to be her guest on Book Stew. (If you don't want to see the YouTube video, you can listen to the podcast on Soundcloud here.)
E. Jean Carroll’s triumph
No, not the civil case(s) she has won against Donald Trump. I'm talking about her hilarious and brilliant new book, Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President. I reviewed it for the Arts Fuse (which is not paywalled and has a ton of great criticism and arts news). But...










