![Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce](https://jvbrown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Reef-Road.jpg)
This was a fascinating story inspired by a real-life crime. During the pandemic lockdown of 2020, a severed hand washes ashore at Reef Road beach in Palm Beach, Fla. Two women’s lives intersect as they learn more about what happened: one, a writer who loves researching murder statistics, and the other is a wife whose husband has disappeared with their children. The book reads like nonfiction but it is a completely fictional psychological thriller.