Isolated and obsessed by an unsolved murder, a writer’s lonely life collides with a mother desperately searching for her missing husband and children, just as the pandemic lockdown of 2020 shutters the world.

Deborah Goodrich Royce crafts a wrenching tale inspired by true crime events in her compelling new novel Reef Road.

Hear Deborah in conversation with Annabel Monaghan.

Copies will be available for purchase. 

Deborah Goodrich Royce is the author of  Reef Road (2023), Ruby Falls (2021), and Finding Mrs. Ford (2019). A former film and television actress, she is remembered by soap opera fans for her role of Silver Kane, sister of the legendary Erica Kane, on ABC-TV’s 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, Conn., which now operates as a not-for-profit dedicated to independent, classic, foreign, and documentary films and hosts lectures from film luminaries including Mira Nair, Richard Gere, and Chloe Sevigny.