Zigzag Girl

By

Ruth Knafo Setton
To catch a killer who knows her secrets, magician Lucy Moon must perform the most dangerous trick of her life—discovering who she really is.
Zigzag Girl

By

Ruth Knafo Setton

To catch a killer who knows her secrets, magician Lucy Moon must perform the most dangerous trick of her life—discovering who she really is.

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 finds her best friend murdered inside the infamous sawing box that killed a performer decades ago—a black rose in her mouth, the same signature from Lucy’s buried past—she’s thrust into a deadly game of deception. To unmask a killer who knows her secrets, Lucy must navigate shadowy criminal networks, confront an unsolved 1940s murder, and perform the most dangerous trick of her life: discovering who she really is.

About the Author

Born in Morocco, Ruth Knafo Setton is the author of The Road to Fez and Zigzag Girl, which won Grand Prize in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition and First Place in the Daphne du Maurier Awards. Her Zigzag Girl TV pilot won First Prize at the LA Crime and Horror Film Festival; her screenplays have been recognized by Austin Film Festival, Sundance, and CineStory. An NEA Fellow, she taught creative writing at Lehigh University and Semester at Sea. Crime and speculative fiction forthcoming in Close to the Bone, khōréō, and Odysseus—a Flame Tree Press anthology. Monthly newsletter: ruthsetton.substack.com.

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