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
crime and R&B
I write about radio for The Boston Globe, and so over the last few days I've witnessed a lot of schaudenfraude in the industry (along with jokes about "pay for play") that Eliott Spitzer was going to clean up. But now that I hear that the woman at the center of the...
“How Do I Get Reviewed?” a guest blog by David J. Montgomery
I review as well as write, and so I am occasionally queried by authors who are desperate for coverage. I’ve been in the same boat myself, way too often. But most of my reviews, as I tell these authors, are assigned by my editors. Therefore, I turned to reviewer and...
Behind the scenes of “Cries and Whiskers”
Stacy Hackett of the CatChannel.com interviewed me about the backstory to Cries and Whiskers.










