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
Gabriel Valjan: The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
Thrilled to host Gabriel Valjan here today. Gabriel's a fellow Bostonian and a music fan, and his novels of suspense are chock full of the kind of sensual detail that make them perfect for a winter escape. His latest, Symphony Road revisits a Boston I remember,...
“Incantation” a Top Five cat book!
The Conscious Cat blog covers all things cat – from health and behavior to feline fiction. So you can imagine how thrilled I was to have two books in blogger Ingrid King's 2020 top five (one – Fear on Four Paws – is from a previous year, but no complaints!). Her list...
Here’s to a cozy Jólabókaflóðið!
It's here! The Icelandic "book flood," my new favorite holiday. Since today's forecast here in Massachusetts is for blowy, cold rain, I can't imagine a better way to spend the day! Some of you (you know who you are) have advance copies of my January cozy, A Cat on the...