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Actress Deb Royce writes murder mystery novel, "Reef Road," inspired by a true crime

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Deborah Goodrich Royce- award-winning author and former film and television actress, has written a thrilling page-turner inspired by a real-life murder, "Reef Road."

Goodrich Royce is best remembered by soap opera fans for her role as Silver Kane, sister of the legendary Erica Kane, on ABC-TV’s All My Children.

In Reef Road, she explores a decades-old unsolved murder of a young girl. Inspired by a real-life crime, the novel follows a winding path that begins with an unspeakable murder in 1948 Pittsburgh and culminates with a man’s severed hand washed up on the shore of Palm Beach in 2020—in the heat of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Goodrich Royce is also the author of the widely praised psychological thrillers Ruby Falls (2021) and Finding Mrs. Ford (2019).

Discover this novel and more of her work at her deborahgoodrichroyce.com.