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
Zelda as the muse
What is it about a madwoman? From the Maenads to Edie Sedgwick, such heedless spirits have long inspired our stories. When they don’t exist in real life, we invent them. Just ask Heathcliffe what was pushing him so hard, and he’ll come back with some tale about a...
Historical friction…
And here's my piece on why you're all reading the wrong Hilary Mantel novel, also for DAME.
That’s why the feminist is a Dame….
It occurs to me, I should link to the book pieces I write for DAME magazine. So here's my take on why, 50 years after its publication, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique still matters. It's not what you'd think...










