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 & puns & rock & roll?
Hi, my name is Clea and I need help.I am addicted to puns and literary references. It probably started back when my father first handed me a wooden quarter-sized disc with the letters TUIT on it. "Have you ever said you'll do something when you can get a round to it?...
Hear ye, hear ye!
Cries and Whiskers is an audio book! (Here it is on audible.com, also on Amazon as a CD-ROM, wonder if they'll send me one of those?) My copies of the Blackstone Audio eight-CD set (hey, it's unabridged) just arrived. I'm a little afraid to listen, lest reader Tavia...
Should this be in a family newspaper?
File under "heavy petting" (and "equal time" for this blog): I love this. If a dog can smile, Joan Lowell Smith's husky is smiling.photo credit: Jim Pathe/The Star-Ledger










