Best Boy
- Author Deborah Goodrich Royce
- Narrator Saskia Maarleveld
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 25 April 2026
- Run Time 9 hours
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
A gripping psychological thriller, Best Boy teeters on the knife-edge of memory and identity when the arrival of a shocking letter threatens the carefully constructed life of a woman desperate to outrun her past.
Viveca Stevenson has it all: a handsome and successful husband, an adorable ten-year-old son, and a coastal dream house in Greenwich, Connecticut. She has a solid group of girlfriends and is content with the afterglow of the film career she’s left behind. But when a threatening letter arrives—from a man she does not remember—it cracks open a part of her past she thought was buried for good.
A terrifying chain of events is set in motion, forcing Viveca to confront what happened on a shattering Halloween night in high school when she had a different name, a different face, a different voice. Who is the man contacting her now and was he really the best boy on her most famous film, Misty? Why can’t she remember him—or that night?
A taut psychological thriller, Best Boy explores identity, memory, and the dangerous power of forgetting.
Critics Review
“Once again, Deborah Goodrich Royce hits a home run with a suspenseful novel that flip-flops seamlessly as the story unwinds.”
“This novel is electric—a low pulse that builds and builds, then explodes in a devastating lightning strike. I felt this way right from the beginning, all the way through.”
“Deborah Goodrich Royce writes with the cutting clarity of a glittering diamond…At times dark, at times laugh-out-loud funny, this is a dishy and deeply textured read that will have you racing through the pages to figure out what happened, and what happens next.”
“This is a breathless and engrossing must-read about the lies we tell each other—and ourselves. Don’t miss it!”
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