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Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce

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gweezlebur's review

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

3.0

fromsarahsbooknook's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Maybe this one is a better read than a listen ….

Thanks to Post Hill Press and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this title prior to publication. I heard about this forthcoming book from a book podcast, recommended by a favorite bookseller of mine. She said it was a thriller that was unlike anything she had read before, and since our reading tastes overlap quite a bit, I had to pick this one up. I inhaled this book and completed it in less than 24 hours, even getting up in the middle of the night to finish it when I could not sleep! This book involves a severed hand washing up on shore, a writer investigating the murder of her mom's childhood friend, and a woman whose husband and kids disappear - all culminating during the initial lockdown in the 2020 pandemic. I loved the alternating POV chapters and non-linear timeline as well as the meta conversations about mystery writing and true crime culture. This book was exactly what I needed at the moment, and now I must look up Royce's backlist.