Zigzag Girl

Available To Pre-order Now | Out October 23 | Paperback

Zigzag Girl, by Ruth Knafo Setton, is a twisty contemporary mystery with a touch of magic, set in Atlantic City and the eerie New Jersey Pine Barrens. Lucy Moon, a brilliant young magician with a mysterious past, works in the town’s theatre, staging performances of enchantment and conjure. But one night, during the ‘Sawing a Woman in Half’ trick, Lucy discovers her friend’s body in the box, dead. As Lucy digs deeper, she uncovers a trail of murders and suspects. With the help of a fierce group of female magicians and mystics, she must expose the truth before she becomes the final act.

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Ruth Knafo Setton is the award-winning author of The Road to Fez and Zigzag Girl. Her work has received fellowships and prizes from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, and Writer's Digest. Zigzag Girl won the Grand Prize in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition and First Prize in the Daphne Awards, while her pilot adaptation won the 2024 Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival. A student of magic who has been sawed in half and thirds, locked in straitjackets, and managed to break free, Setton brings firsthand knowledge of illusion to her fiction. Born in Morocco and raised on stories of wonder, she has taught creative writing at Lehigh University and with Semester at Sea.