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
Thankful Tuesday
I know Thanksgiving is coming up, but I'd love to use this #ThankfulTuesday to send out a whole-HEARTed love song to the amazing #bookstagram community.😍All authors fear being alone - and it is the greatest feeling in the world when, instead, your book gets...
Five songs Gal Raver wishes she wrote…
"Simon’s tour of the Boston music scene will make readers wish “Hold Me Down” included a link to iTunes." – Oline Cogdill, South Florida Sun Sentinel Clea Simon Blame Oline. She was the first reviewer to suggest that HOLD ME DOWN should have a playlist, and I've...
#FBF with Caroline Leavitt and Harvard Book Store
Caroline Leavitt is not only an astute critic and a crafter of glorious prose (check out her With or Without You), she's also a dear friend. So when the two of us got talking in this Harvard Book Store online event, the official launch of my new Hold Me Down, we...










