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
Lucy Burdette’s Scottish play
I was about to congratulate noted cozy author (and past Sisters in Crime president) Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib) on her latest Key West mystery when it hit me ... it's set in Scotland? Yes, with A Scone of Contention this sweet food-oriented series is taking a...
The cost of uncertainty (a Bouchercon post-mortem)
My op-ed on Bouchercon ran in todays Boston Globe. If you can subscribe to this (or any) newspaper, I urge you to. However, I'm opting to make this readable (though it lacks some of the cool click-throughs and graphics). OPINION The cost of uncertainty Bouchercon was...
Sherry Harris on the bones of a good story
"A line will take us hours maybe, but if it seems more than a moment's thought our stitching and unstitching is for naught." William Butler Yeats was talking about poetry, but he may as well have been talking about cozies. These fun character-driven mysteries need to...










