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When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. A young woman's life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics. What each of them stands to lose as they sneak around the do-not-enter tape blocking Reef Road beach is exposed by the steady tightening of the cincture encircling them. In a nod to the true crime that inspired it, Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road probes unhealed generational scars in a wrenching and original work of fiction. It is both stunning and sexy and, like a bystander surprised by a curtain left open, you won't be able to look away.

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Reef Road is a daunting masterpiece. A plot-driven thriller inspired by a real unsolved murder that you won't be able to put down. This atmospheric thriller satisfies. A stunningly dark read. -- Rea Frey, award-winning author of Secrets of Our House Reef Road is magnificent. It feels utterly real, a novel of deeply personal context...Though pure fiction, it reads as compellingly as a mixture of memoir and expose. It has left me shaken to the core. Deborah Goodrich Royce writes with brilliant understanding of the mystery and occasional grace of trauma. -- Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author Superbly written and elegantly structured, the oh-so-talented Deborah Goodrich Royce brings her unique voice and mesmerizing style to an altogether original novel of suspense. Instantly immersive and deeply felt, Reef Road is both intensely personal and powerfully universal...I could not put it down. -- Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author

Reef Road is magnificent. It feels utterly real, a novel of deeply personal context...Though pure fiction, it reads as compellingly as a mixture of memoir and expose. -- Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author A daunting masterpiece. A plot-driven thriller inspired by a real unsolved murder that you won't be able to put down. This atmospheric thriller satisfies. A stunningly dark read. -- Rea Frey, author of Secrets of Our House A thriller of a roller-coaster ride, an elixir of murder, mystery, and mental instability...Unraveling the characters' motives and psyche, and the plot twists and turns, makes Reef Road a perfect book-club choice. -- Joan Luise Hill and Katie Mahon, authors of The Miracle Collectors Superbly written and elegantly structured...an altogether original novel of suspense. Instantly immersive and deeply felt, Reef Road is both intensely personal and powerfully universal...I could not put it down. -- Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author

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Amalia Ran is assistant professor of contemporary Latin American fiction and Jewish Latin American literature and culture at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and a research fellow at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies at Tel Aviv University.

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