Rosanne Limoncelli's "The Spiral," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Spiral: A Thriller (A Nina Esposito Mystery) by Rosanne Limoncelli.

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I will admit that I pictured this book as a movie as I wrote it from the start. Nina’s paranoid world of fear, built from her past traumas and the crime ridden setting of New York City in 1979, was vivid in my head with intense close-ups, skewed wide angles, and pounding music. Due to the fact that I lived some of this story in that place and time, I visualized it as I wrote it. I’ve often thought about which actors would play the lead roles and in the last few years some interesting possibilities have come to light.

I could easily see Mikey Madison (Anora, The Social Reckoning) playing Nina. She has the look, petite with dark hair and eyes, and I can see her playing the vulnerability as well as the inner strength that the character requires.

For Nina’s love interest, the lead detective Frankie Lopez...[read on]

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