Iconic thriller author explores cold case in “Reef Road”
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(WHNT) – The “Queen of Plot Twists,” Deborah Goodrich Royce, brings us another thrilling page-turner in “Reef Road.”
In her new book, Royce explores a decades-old unsolved murder of a young girl. Inspired by a real-life crime, the novel follows a winding path that begins with an unspeakable murder that culminates more than 70 years later.
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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 COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020.
The author of the widely praised psychological thrillers “Ruby Falls” and “Finding Mrs. Ford.” Royce is a former film and television actress, best remembered by soap opera fans for her role of Silver Kane, sister of the legendary Erica Kane, on “All My Children.”
She later worked as a story editor for Miramax Films and was instrumental in the development of such films as “Emma” and “A Wrinkle in Time.”
With her husband, Chuck, she restored the Avon Theatre in Stamford, CT, which now operates as a not-for-profit dedicated to independent, classic, foreign and documentary films. It also hosts lectures from film luminaries including Mira Nair, Richard Gere and Chloe Sevigny.
Royce talks to us about the real-life inspiration behind the book in the video above.
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