The Snow Globe

by Tony Faggioli

Overview

In the four years since breaking off her engagement, Maggie Kincaid has fled from city to city, seeking to escape her ex-fiancé Michael's relentless pursuit. Abandoned by a criminal justice system that cannot seem to protect her despite multiple restraining orders, she is ready to give up. But it isn't that easy. Maggie's dead grandmother keeps haunting her dreams, warning her in cryptic phrases of the future. Or is it the past?

Determined to end her ordeal one way or another, Maggie confronts Michael, and he disappears, seeming to have tired of the chase. Instead, the hunter has decided to make himself the hunted, in a way that no one could have imagined. Knowing both the depths of his psychosis, and the repeated failures of law enforcement to help her in the past, Maggie decides she has no choice but to go after him alone.

In a chase that takes her from New York to Washington, D.C. and into the deepest corners of her mind, Maggie Kincaid is about to learn that you can be stalked by things far worse than a love gone bad.

Praise for The Snow Globe

"A bleak but gripping tale with an impressive protagonist." - Kirkus Reviews

"A simply riveting read from cover to cover, The Snow Globe demonstrates author Tony Faggioli's genuine gift for narrative driven storytelling of the first order." - Midwest Book Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997897487
Publisher:	Atticus Creative, Inc.
Publication date:	03/07/2017
Series:	Maggie Kincaid Psychological Thriller , #1
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Tony Faggioli began writing stories in the fifth grade and continued doing so until college, when he gave up writing to pursue a very short career in politics and a much longer career in business. One day, he finally realized that neither brought him anywhere near the amount of joy as writing. Born in Pittsburgh, he was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of Southern California. He is a happily married father of two kids.

Editorial Reviews

2017-06-21
A woman comes face to face with an obsessed ex-fiance when he threatens someone she loves in Faggioli's (One Plus One, 2016, etc.) thriller. Maggie Kincaid has been leading a quiet life in New York City, spending evenings alone in her apartment with her cat, Zossima. But she hasn't been there for long; she's been living in different places around the United States for the past five years in order to avoid her ex, Michael, who's been stalking her ever since she broke off their engagement. Maggie's very careful to exchange nightly, coded texts with her younger sister, Julie, to verify that she's OK, and she memorizes the exact placement of items in her own apartment before leaving for work so that she'll know if Michael's broken in. So she's understandably worried when she spots a blue Honda—a car that Michael has previously used. When it's clear that he's tracked her down again, Maggie chooses to stop running and stay right where she is. Michael responds by threatening her family, proving that he's keeping an eye on Julie and their parents. To ensure their safety, Maggie follows his cryptic clues, which take her on a journey to a past filled with grim memories. Faggioli approaches his serious subject with unsparing realism: looking back, for example, Maggie realizes that her initial relationship with Michael had red flags, and in the present day, the law offers no help to her without witnesses or a physical assault. One early scene, in which Maggie thinks that Michael is somewhere in her apartment, is pure, white-knuckle suspense. There's even a dash of the supernatural in Maggie's lucid dreams, often of her late grandmother, that link Maggie to a surprising ally and force her to address a buried secret. Faggioli also sprinkles the taut narrative with darkly lyrical metaphors, such as the notion that Maggie was "fated to be [Michael's] trigger" or that Michael's voice is "a Q-tip plunged deep into her ear." A bleak but gripping tale with an impressive protagonist.

Kirkus Reviews

Pure, white-knuckle suspense…[A] gripping tale with an impressive protagonist.”

Kirkus Reviews

A simply riveting read from cover to cover, The Snow Globe demonstrates author Tony Faggioli’s genuine gift for narrative-driven storytelling of the first order.”

Midwest Book Review