Reef Road audiobook cover - Palm Beach shuts down, a severed hand washes ashore, and two women—one a shaken wife, the other a relentless writer tied to an old Pittsburgh murder—collide. What begins as a missing-persons scare becomes a dark, intergenerational reckoning of love, violence, and the cost of telling the truth.

Reef Road

Palm Beach shuts down, a severed hand washes ashore, and two women—one a shaken wife, the other a relentless writer tied to an old Pittsburgh murder—collide. What begins as a missing-persons scare becomes a dark, intergenerational reckoning of love, violence, and the cost of telling the truth.

Deborah Goodrich Royce

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Description

Reef Road is a taut psychological thriller told in two entwined voices. Linda Alonso is a Palm Beach mother trapped in an unraveling marriage during the early pandemic. The other narrator, a writer who grew up in the shadow of her mother’s best friend’s unsolved 1948 murder in Pittsburgh, has spent a lifetime chasing answers. When a severed hand appears on Reef Road beach, the writer’s obsession and Linda’s desperation intersect. Across short, propulsive chapters, the story moves between present-day Florida and a decades-old crime, between a marriage that turns violent and the ways trauma keeps rippling across generations. The result is a raw, intimate portrait of how one horrific act can echo for decades and how choices made in fear can destroy a family—or save what’s left of it.

Who Should Listen

  • Listeners who love layered psychological thrillers with alternating narrators
  • Fans of crime stories that braid past and present into one tight timeline
  • Book clubs looking to discuss trauma, generational patterns, and moral gray zones

About the Authors

Deborah Goodrich Royce writes psychological suspense that blends intimate character work with propulsive, twisty plots. She is the author of Reef Road, Ruby Falls, and Finding Mrs. Ford. Her novels often explore memory, identity, and the long echo of violent acts.