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Sign up todayReef Road
A Novel
Narrator
Saskia Maarleveld
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Length
8 hours 57 minutes
Language
English
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“Wow, this one is going to stay with me for a while!! There are not very many books that have made me gasp but this one certainly did and more than once! Reef Road is an absorbing novel about generational vengeance in the age of COVID-19....Seventy-two years after a murder the victim's namesake is seeking atonement for her death. As the author noted 'there are threads in our lives. You pull one and everything else gets affected.' This is a compelling engrossing intelligent book, and I loved it.”
— Cheryl • Out West Books
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.
Deborah Goodrich Royce launched her acting career in 1982 in the lead role of Silver Kane on ABC’s All My Children. She went on to star in dozens of feature films, television series, and TV movies. In the 90s, she was the story editor at Miramax Films. Royce serves on the national council of the American Film Institute, the executive board of the Greenwich International Film Festival, the international council of the Preservation Society of Newport, and the governing boards of New York Botanical Garden, the Greenwich Historical Society, and the PRASAD Project.
Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones Award–winning narrator. Raised in New Zealand and France, she is highly skilled with accents and dialects, and many of her books have been narrated entirely in accents other than her own. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials.
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“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.”
“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.”
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