Consuella's Thrill

Beautiful, widowed Constance—a.k.a. Consuella—clings to a terrible secret, torn between three men from Monte Carlo to Coney Island. One wants to love her. One wants to ravish her. One wants to kill her.

Consuella’s Thrill, a sinuously twisting tale of forbidden romance and shocking vengeance, moves from the Brooklyn slums to an elite Monte Carlo hookup club to a penthouse over the Coney Island beach. Cuozzo’s genre-bending first novel upends geographical expectations—and taboos.

A chance mid...