On Tour 01/04/24-02/29/24 “Reef Road” by Deborah Goodrich Royce

Paperback Release Date: January 9, 2024

About The Book:

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.

About The Author:

Deborah Goodrich Royce’s thrillers examine puzzles of identity. Reef Road hit Publishers Weekly’s Bestseller list, Good Morning America’s Top 15 list, and was an Indie Next pick by the American Bookseller’s Association for January 2023. Ruby Falls won the Zibby Award for Best Plot Twist in 2021 and Finding Mrs. Ford was hailed by Forbes, Book Riot, and Good Morning America’s “best of” lists in 2019.

She began as an actress on All My Children and in multiple films, before transitioning to the role of story editor at Miramax Films, developing Emma and early versions of Chicago and A Wrinkle in Time.

With her husband, Chuck, Deborah restored the Avon Theatre, Ocean House Hotel, Deer Mountain Inn, United Theatre, Savoy Bookstore, and numerous Main Street revitalization projects in Rhode Island and the Catskills.

She serves on the governing and/or advisory boards of the American Film Institute, Avon Theatre, Greenwich International Film Festival, New York Botanical Garden, Greenwich Historical Society, the Preservation Society of Newport, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, and the PRASAD Project.

The Ocean House Author Series—a salon style conversation that Deborah created in partnership with The Savoy Bookshop & Café—brings world-class authors to readers in the stunning seaside location of Watch Hill, RI. This year, Deborah will talk there with two dozen writers ranging from Chris Bohjalian to Katie Couric. Past authors have included Zibby Owens, Emma Straub, Annabel Monaghan, Zain Asher, and many more.

Deborah holds a bachelor’s degree in modern foreign languages and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Lake Erie College. https://deborahgoodrichroyce.com/

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Book Blurbs:

“Royce’s murder mystery, involving generational vengeance in the time of Covid-19, would make the ancient Greeks proud. 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.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“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

“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. Royce creates a haunting (and surprising!) portrait of a troubled wife—and the relentless writer on the trail of her past. I could not put it down.”—Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of Her Perfect Life

“Reef Road, a taut, expertly-crafted psychological thriller, grabbed me from the first page and kept me hooked with its many dark twists. Set in Palm Beach, Florida, during the strange, locked-down days of Spring, 2020, the novel alternates between two narratives: an unnamed mystery writer, who is researching the murder in 1948 Pittsburgh of her mother’s childhood friend, Noelle Grace Huber; and Linda Alonso, the unhappily married mother of two young children. As layer by layer is peeled away, the connection between these two women and the long-dead girl is revealed—and along with it, a powerful rendering of how trauma from one violent act can reverberate for generations.”—Virginia Hume, author of Haven Point

“In Deborah Goodrich Royce’s propulsive and riveting novel Reef Road, nothing is what it seems. You will keep turning pages into the night, unraveling the threads of two women’s intersecting lives to reveal a shocking act of violence and the devastating reverberations that echo decades later.”—Mary Dixie Carter, author of The Photographer

“Reef Road is a masterpiece. It’s a tightly woven and often humorously told thriller that somehow manages to speak volumes about how families pass down trauma. Nothing short of brilliant.”-Annabel Monaghan, author of Nora Goes Off Script

“A writer on a mission to solve a decades old murder. A woman struggling to survive an abusive marriage and protect her children. As these two narrations collide in the most unexpected way, the story takes a marvelously twisty turn. Original, taut, and psychologically complex, Reef Road is Deborah Goodrich Royce at the top of her game!”-Wendy Walker, national best-selling author of Don’t Look For Me

Bloggers On Tour:

Jan. 4th- Cassie’s Book Reviews https://instagram.com/cassies_books_reviews

Jan. 4th- David L Morgan https://instagram.com/david_l_morgan

Jan. 5th- Reading With Mere-https://instagram.com/readingwithmere

Jan. 6th- Carol Doscher https://instagram.com/carol_doscher_reader

Jan. 8th- Novels and Latte Book Club –https://www.facebook.com/groups/357651988042629

Jan. 8th- Thrillers and Coffee https://instagram.com/thrillersandcoffee

Jan. 8th- Love My Books 2020 https://instagram.com/lovemybooks2020

Jan. 10th- Kelizak Reads https://instagram.com/kelizakreads

Jan. 10th- A Court Of spines n pages https://instagram.com/acourtofspinesnpages

Jan. 11th- Biblio Reviews https://instagram.com/biblioreviews

Jan. 11th- Always Reading https://instagram.com/always_reading1