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
From a tumultuous childhood to a thriller…
The great CrimeReads gave me some space today to explore the less-than-idyllic backstory to my new The Butterfly Trap. Did you have a picture-perfect childhood? If not (and who did?), do you find yourself repeating patterns from...
“Butterfly” takes the Page 69 Test
If browsers open your book to page 69, would they get a good (or an inaccurate) idea of the whole work? that was the question posed to me about my new psychological suspense, The Butterfly Trap. This "test" grows out of an observation attributed to Marshall McLuhan,...
“A masterfully woven psychological thriller…”
"Clea Simon’s The Butterfly Trap is a masterfully woven psychological thriller that challenges perception and keeps readers second-guessing at every turn. With an intricate dual-perspective narrative, Simon skillfully blurs the lines between truth and deception,...










