Zigzag Girl

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.

Author: Ruth Knafo Setton
Publisher: Black Spring Crime
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.99w x 1.03d
ISBN13: 9781917788038
ISBN10: 1917788037
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Crime
- Fiction | Thrillers | Psychological
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Amateur Sleuth

About the Author
Born in Morocco and raised on tales of wonder, Ruth Knafo Setton is the author of the novels, The Road to Fez, and Zigzag Girl--which is a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Standalone Book of the Year. Zigzag Girl also won Grand Prize in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition and First Place in the Daphne du Maurier Awards. Her TV pilot for Zigzag Girl won First Prize at the LA Crime and Horror Film Festival, and her screenplays have been recognized by Austin Film Festival, Sundance, and CineStory. An NEA Fellow, she has taught creative writing at Lehigh University and with Semester at Sea.