The Spiral

When Nina finds the dead body of a woman who could easily be her twin, she must divide the men in her life into two groups: the ones she can trust and the ones who might be the killer. A refreshing new take on the noir-thriller genre, The Spiral is perfect for fans of Tana French and Stieg Larsson. It's 1979, and nineteen-year-old Nina Esposito survives gritty Greenwich Village by tending bar with plenty of sarcasm and elbow grease. She can navigate the lewd customers, dirty streets, and danger-after-dark of NYC until a serial killer arrives on the scene targeting women who look exactly like her. Now survival for Nina means finding the killer before he finds her. She has the constant feeling that she is prey surrounded by predators and every man she meets could be the killer: the guy following her on the subway, her leering acting coach, the restaurant owner pressuring her for a date. But is she really a target, or are the demons of her past clouding her judgment? Detective Frankie Lopez seems to be on her side-but she knows that trusting the wrong person could make her the next victim. Set in crime-ridden New York City, when the subways were covered in graffiti and the burned-out buildings of the East Village were homes for squatters and punk rock teens, this psychological thriller is a dark murder mystery, one that will keep you guessing until the very end when the final twist is revealed.

Rosanne Limoncelli, PhD, is a writer, filmmaker, and roller skater living in Brooklyn. Her short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Suspense Magazine, and Noir Nation, and her short films have been screened in festivals around the world. Rosanne also writes plays, screenplays, poetry, games, mysteries, and science fiction and has taught writing and filmmaking for more than three decades at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.