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
Cats against Palin …
Thank you, Paul Krugman for this link and quote (in yesterday's NYT blog):We already had Dogs Against Romney. Now we need Cats Against Palin:When asked to reveal something about Palin that no one knows, one woman offered, “She doesn’t care for cats very much,” and...
… the king is dead, long live…
What's in a name? If you're Dr. Hector Carpentier, an impoverished young physician in 1818 Paris, everything....(my review of Louis Bayard's The Black Tower in today's Boston Globe).
… and finally
Let's not forget those who died seven years ago today. And, let's face it, how the Bush Administration could have averted these attacks.The warnings were going straight to President Bush each morning in his briefings by the CIA director, George Tenet, and in the...










