Bibliograph

Reef Road, Deborah Goodrich Royce

Type

Label

Reef Road, Deborah Goodrich Royce

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Reef Road

Oclc number

1321785906

Responsibility statement

Deborah Goodrich Royce

Summary

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 pandemic lockdown of 2020. 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 themSpring 2020: the world has ground to a halt: the residents of Palm Beach, Florida, are quarantined by a virus, while an useasonable heat wave descends. From a pretty house on the north end of the island a husband and children go missing while a wife delays reporting it. In an apartment behind a grocery story a writer works to solve a decades-old murder. On a famous surfing beach a human is found, and a passing surfer turns out to be a copy. Their paths will all converse on Reef Road

Target audience

adult

Classification