What is Rosanne Limoncelli reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Rosanne Limoncelli, author of The Spiral: A Thriller (A Nina Esposito Mystery).

Her entry begins:

My reading time for leisure gets thin when I’m working on a project, (or more than one project) but I have found that reading is essential in order to keep my brain nimble for my own writing. I vary between books that inspire me for the particular project I am working on, and something completely different to take me away.

Just finished The Foreign Correspondent’s Wife by Jenna Helwig. I was lucky enough to get an early copy of this book; Set in post-WWII Paris, the wife of an American foreign correspondent stumbles on the body of her murdered classmate at culinary school. If a murder mystery can be part escape, this one is! In addition to the murder mystery, it has...[read on]

About The Spiral, from the publisher:

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.

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