Zigzag Girl is a noir-tinged feminist thriller where The Prestige meets Knives Out in Atlantic City’s haunted magic underworld.
When magician Lucy Moon discovers her best friend murdered inside the infamous sawing box that killed a performer decades ago, she’s thrust into a deadly game where every suspect is a master of deception. The killer seems to know secrets about her she’s spent a lifetime hiding—including her true identity.
Racing to unmask the murderer before he strikes again, Lucy must navigate Atlantic City’s shadowy criminal networks and the eerie isolation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where bodies disappear as easily as cards up a magician’s sleeve. As she’s drawn to a charismatic magician who might be the killer, she must also confront the ghost of Cleo West, the glamorous 1940s assistant whose unsolved murder in the same box echoes through time.
With the most dangerous performance of her life fast approaching—a trick that threatens to expose her past—Lucy faces an intoxicating blend of illusion, murder mystery, and gothic atmosphere. In this cinematic thriller where the Pine Barrens’ twisted pines hide as many secrets as the magic acts themselves, nothing is as it seems.
A complex heroine forced to unmask herself to catch a killer, and a powerful exploration of women who create their own magic to survive in a world designed to make them disappear.
