Reef Road
- Author Deborah Goodrich Royce
- Narrator Saskia Maarleveld
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 10 January 2023
- Run Time 8 hours and 58 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Psychological thriller.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
“[Maarleveld‘s] well-paced narration is vested with an underlying tension that sustains the listener through the slower-paced first half of the audiobook…Maarleveld’s portrayals reveal the cunning and desperation of the more sinister players.”
“Royce is a wicked good writer…the gears of this clever plot mesh like those of a Swiss watch. A truly absorbing mystery by a writer at the top of her game.”
“Royce keeps the plot twists coming…This is an expertly paced thrill ride.”
“Will be appreciated by fans of psychological thrillers and stories of traumas affecting multiple generations.”
“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 exposé.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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