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Deborah Goodrich Royce | Taking Inspiration For Suspense From Real Life
Author Guest / January 9, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? REEF ROAD 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? 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 frantic wife whose husband has disappeared with their children—collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I happened to be in Palm Beach when the pandemic hit in March 2020. So as the world was closing down around me—around all of us—I decided to do two things: one was to finally research the real-life murder of my mother’s best friend, and two, was to write a book about it and set it exactly where I was sheltering in place. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Now that is a fine question! People always ask me if my protagonists are me. The answer is they are and they aren’t. Like the actress I used to be, I always use bits of myself in each character. But would I hang out with…