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
Editing, editing, editing…
I'm in the thick of edits for An Incantation of Cats, mulling over a particularly troublesome passage. (In brief, my editor wants more info about a bit of magic, and I'm trying to figure out how to work it in without gumming up the dialogue.) And so... I've set up the...
Five Questions with Barb Goffman
Sometimes I want my fiction short and ... not so sweet. That's when I turn to Barb Goffman, whose prize-winning short stories pack a punch in a neat little package. There's plenty of atmosphere. Tension, too, but nary a wasted word. You can find her stories in Ellery...
Fear on Four (purple) Paws
Check out this cool – and very purple! – cover. It will grace the WorldWide edition mass market paperback of my Fear On Four Paws, available online only as of Dec. 1. I'll put up a link when it's available! And here's the full cover flat, including the back cover...