Deborah Goodrich Royce’s suspenseful book “Reef Road” takes place during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Two women’s lives are intertwined: a lonely writer consumed by an unsolved murder and a terrified wife whose husband and kids have vanished. They find themselves ensnared in an increasingly dangerous circle as they make their way around the closed Reef Road beach. The book examines unhealed generational scars and was inspired by an actual crime.