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
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...
Five Questions with Hallie Ephron
Hallie Ephron is not only a New York Times bestselling author, she's a loyal supporter of the New England crime fiction scene. That made me doubly bummed that I had to miss her local launch for the brand new Careful What You Wish For at our great local indie,...
‘World Enough’ a MA Book Award ‘must read’
World Enough has been named a "must read" in the Massachusetts Book Awards, presented by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, for books published in 2017, joining such others notables as Alice Hoffman's The Rules of Magic and Claire Messud's The Burning Girl. Top...