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Absolutely compelling! This story will please fans of Liane Moriarty and Ruth Ware."
- — Kirkus Reviews
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A breathless and engrossing must-read about the lies we tell each other—and ourselves. Don’t miss it!”
- — Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Close Your Eyes and Count to 10
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Deborah Goodrich Royce writes with the cutting clarity of a glittering diamond. At times dark, at times laugh-out-loud funny, this is a dishy and deeply textured read that will have you racing through the pages to figure out what happened, and what happens next.”
- — Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Margaret Fuller
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Best Boy is electric. It builds with a simmering start, then explodes into a devastating lightning strike.”
- — Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author of Last Night
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Deborah Goodrich Royce is the new queen of bladed psychological thrillers.”
- — Sarah McCoy, New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely?
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Best Boy is a haunting, propulsive novel about the cost of secrets and the past’s refusal to stay buried. I’ll be thinking—and talking—about this book for a very long time.”
- — Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling author of Harlem Rhapsody
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Best Boy is the kind of novel you can’t put down and that you desperately don’t want to end!”
- — Christa Carmen, author of The Daughters of Block Island and Beneath the Poet’s House
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Best Boy is a delicious read, full of Royce’s wonderfully wicked plot twists and engaging characters.”
- — Ann Hood, author of The Stolen Child
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Best Boy is a beautifully written psychological thriller that delves into the cost of burying secrets to preserve a carefully constructed life.”
- — Elise Hart Kipness, bestselling author of Close Call
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Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Best Boy is a beautifully layered, deeply introspective and courageous mystery.”
- — Jeffrey Blount, author of Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way
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This latest read from the mistress of suspense, deftly peels back the onion until the final truth is revealed."
- — Lee Woodruff, #1 New York Times bestselling author of In an Instant
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Another Deborah Goodrich Royce intelligent psychological thriller that the reader is compelled to keep turning pages to finish.”
- — Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, author of The Far Side of the Desert and Burning Distance
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Kirkus Reviews'
Best Books of 2023 -
Publishers Weekly Bestseller
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A truly absorbing mystery by a writer at the top of her game”
- — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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This is an expertly paced thrill ride.”
- — Publisher's Weekly
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The exciting, page-turning intelligence of Reef Road cannot be overstated.”
- — New York Journal of Books
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Reef Road is the perfect example of literary and psychologically-driven action that takes suspense to a different level.
- — Midwest Book Review
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Royce delivers a rich story that’s also steeped in Palm Beach History and Society.
- — South Florida Sun Sentinel
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Precisely and perfectly crafted.”
- — Fresh Fiction
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Reef Road is magnificent. It has left me shaken to the core.”
- —Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author
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Winner of the Zibby Award
Best Plot Twist -
Veranda Magazine
One of the 20 Most Riveting Books of Spring
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Taut and propulsive.”
- —Kirkus Reviews
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Imaginative, unique, spine-tingling, and just the right amount of eerie, Ruby Falls is what a reader wants a psychological thriller to be.”
- —Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author
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Captivating thriller.”
- —Zibby Owens, author and host of Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books
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Highly recommended reading for those who like gothic stories infused with psychological tension and introspection.”
- —Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer
Midwest Book Review
- —Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer
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Secrets abound in this bang of a book, a haunting tale sure to give readers chills. A stunner with some serious Gothic vibes.”
- —Kimberly Belle, Internationally bestselling author of Dear Wife and Stranger in the Lake
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A tribute to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, this unnerving story about a Hollywood starlet haunted by her past will captivate you right up until the shocking ending.
- —Emily Liebert, USA Today bestselling author of Perfectly Famous
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Ruby Falls is a skillfully plotted page turner!”
- —Wendy Walker, nationally bestselling author of Don’t Look For Me
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Fans of Rebecca will be enthralled with how the classic story is woven into the masterful plot of Ruby Falls.”
- —Vanessa Lillie, Amazon bestselling author of Little Voices and For the Best
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Much more than a mystery, Ruby Falls is about stories - the ones we tell ourselves, the ones we tell others, and the dark gaps in between.”
- —Elka Ray, author of The Toby Wong Vancouver Island mystery series
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Ruby Falls is a psychological tour-de-force that grabs you on page one and doesn’t let you go until the end.”
- —Kris Frieswick, author of The Ghost Manuscript
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Forbes
One of the Top 5 Must-Read Summer Mysteries -
Good Morning America
Top 10 Summer Reads
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Sexy and a little dangerous.”
- —The New York Times Book Review
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Juicy and suspenseful.”
- —People Magazine
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A compelling, well-written thriller with an effective, twisty plot.”
- —Kirkus Reviews
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Once you’ve enjoyed Finding Mrs. Ford, you’ll find yourself expecting more great things upcoming from this author, as am I.”
- —Forbes
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The real thrill of Finding Mrs. Ford comes from reconciling the person Susan says she is with the girl she used to be.”
- —Foreword Reviews
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An impressively original, immediately engaging and thoroughly entertaining novel by an author with a distinctive narrative storytelling style, Finding Mrs. Ford by Deborah Goodrich Royce is unequivocally and unreservedly recommended.”
- —Midwest Book Review
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Lies from the past are uncovered in this thrilling and entertaining debut—incredibly well written and so visual at times it will catch your breath; this book would make a wonderful movie!”
- —Jennifer Blankfein, Book Nation by Jen
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Finding Mrs. Ford tackles big themes of identity, friendship, and loss, spinning out the suspense right to the last page. A total triumph.”
- —Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives
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Don’t think you know who’s at the door, what’s in the envelope, or who’s been sleeping with whom until all the players have been accounted for.”
- —Sherri Daley, BookTrib
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Written with such self-control and calculating precision, Royce has done an excellent job of keeping us glued to the pages as the characters expose themselves in their intricate lives, and lies. A superb debut!”
- —Annie Philbrick, Owner, Bank Square Books and the Savoy Bookshop & Café
About Deborah
"Royce is a wicked good writer."
—Kirkus Reviews
Deborah Goodrich Royce’s “Identity Thrillers” examine the space between who someone says she is and who she actually is. The four-book (and counting!) arc exists as an evolving question: Finding Mrs. Ford asks who we are beneath what we’ve built, Ruby Falls asks what happens when reinvention is flight rather than growth, Reef Road asks what we inherited before we ever chose anything, and Best Boy asks what the maintenance of a constructed self costs.
—Laura Cox Kaplan, Host of She Said, She Said Podcast
