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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Genre: Mystery/Thriller Published by: Black Spring Press Publication Date: March 17, 2026 Number of Pages: 376
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Author Bio:
Born in Morocco and raised in the Lehigh Valley, Ruth Knafo Setton is the author of the novel, The Road to Fez (Counterpoint Press). Her honors include awards and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, PEN, CineStory, Nimrod, Cutthroat, Writer’s Digest, and residencies at Hedgebrook, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a multi-genre author whose fiction, creative nonfiction, screenplays, and poetry have won many awards and appeared in journals and anthologies. A former Fiction Editor of Arts & Letters, she has taught Creative Writing and Multicultural Literature at Lehigh University and on Semester at Sea.
Zig-Zag girl is written by Ruth Knafo Setton. This is the first book that I’ve read by this author. It won’t be my last. I was drawn into the story right as I started reading. The book is divided into 4 parts, with each chapter being a short easy to read.
This is set in Atlantic City. Magician Lucy Moon is getting ready to open a show, but her assistant and friend Vanessa Kim has not arrived. Lucy knows her friend wouldn’t miss such an important event. However then she’s found dead in a historic sawing box.
Lucy was raised in the middle of a life that most wouldn’t understand. She comes from a family of magicians. However, now she suspects everyone. Whoever is responsible for this murder seems to understand the illusion of magic. The deeper that Lucy digs the more it looks like this is connected to another death that happened.
Thank you to the author, publisher and Partners in Crime Book tours for allowing me to read a copy of this book. All thoughts are my own.
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Great review! This sounds like a fun read!
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