ZIGZAG GIRL
by Ruth Knafo Setton
Genre: Mystery / Psychological Thriller / Amateur Sleuth
Published by: Black Spring Press
Publication Date: March 17, 2026
Number of Pages: 376
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SYNOPSIS:
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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Where the Magic Began
BY AUTHOR RUTH KNAFO SETTON
The first magician I ever saw was my grandfather in Morocco—though he wouldn't have called himself one. He kept homing pigeons in brass cages on his roof terrace, and one afternoon we painted their wings and watched them fly. A rainbow of color lifting into the sky. That moment of wonder never left me.
I've spent my life chasing moments like that—magic that spills from the stage to the street. For a while I read Tarot cards for a living. I studied with master magicians. What I love about how magicians think isn't that they think outside the box—it's that for them, there is no box. They helped set my imagination free.
When I wrote Zigzag Girl, I wanted readers to experience the magic as Lucy Moon and Elvis Jones perform it onstage—the gasps, the impossible made real. But I also wanted to take readers backstage, behind the curtain, where the true magic happens: the sweat, the practice, the secrets, the trust between partners. That's where wonder lives, not just in the trick itself but in the people who devote their lives to creating it.
It all started with painted wings and pigeons taking flight.
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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.
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