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
Calling all critics…
Book bloggers and reviewers! The ARC (advanced reading copy) of AN INCANTATION OF CATS is now available on NetGalley. Please, be aware – this is (as the cover notes) the UNCORRECTED copy. I'm going through it now and making all the copy editor's corrections, such as...
Five Questions with Lisa Unger!
OMG, people! Lisa Unger! My introduction to this deservedly best-selling author was through her short story, "The Twenty." A giveaway at last year's Bouchercon, it appeared in a little booklet that I read – and re-read and re-read, first for the sheer joy of it and...
Five Questions with Marty Wingate
I first met Marty Wingate in person in New Orleans, where we skipped out on Bouchercon to enjoy the fabulous adult libations at the ... Her latest, The Bodies in the Library, out tomorrow, How does a book start for you? I’m open to any kind of inspiration, whether it...