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
“The King of Warsaw” review
My review of Twardoch's brutal, moving novel ran in the April 19 Sunday Boston Globe. BOOK REVIEW ‘The King of Warsaw’ is a Holocaust novel with a twist By Clea Simon Globe Correspondent,Updated April 16, 2020, 12:00 p.m. Jakub Szapiro knows about the...
#NoContact book tour with Tim O’Mara
Welcoming crime fiction master Tim O'Mara to the #NoContact Book Tour! Tim and I went to high school together, and after a lapse of decades reconnected through the mystery world, and I was thrilled to contribute to Tim's anthology Down By the River (Down and Out),...
#NoContact Pub Day with Sarah Smith
Today, let's welcome Sarah Smith to the #NoContact Book Tour – and get ready to celebrate her new book, Crimes and Survivors. While we all stay inside and stay safe, books have become even more important – and with Sarah's latest, we can actually set sail! Hey, Sarah!...