13 must-read adult fiction books like Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce

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Reef Road

By: Deborah Goodrich Royce

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two w…

If you liked the adult fiction plot in Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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3. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

By: William Landay

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the chi… read more

Similar categories in William Landay's All That Is Mine I Carry with Me book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"When a writer goes quiet, nothing is blocking and nothing is being blocked. He is just empty."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for “All that is mine I carry with me."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"What about you, Mr. Glover. The smartest man in the room is usually the quietest. What do you think about all this?"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"Who among you would stand up, step out of that jury box, and trade places with me? Who would be accused of a violent murder based on…nothing? How would you prove your innocence when there was never a…"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

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4. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

Similar categories in Dervla McTiernan's What Happened to Nina? book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Woman on the Ledge

By: Ruth Mancini

3.93

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arreste… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Mancini's The Woman on the Ledge book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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9. Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more

Similar categories in Amy Pease's Northwoods book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

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10. The House Guest

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

3.29

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The House Guest is another diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller from Hank Phillippi Ryan—but which cha… read more

Similar categories in Hank Phillippi Ryan's The House Guest book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. One Wrong Word

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

3.67

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing new psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning aut… read more

Similar categories in Hank Phillippi Ryan's One Wrong Word book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Stolen Child

By: Ann Hood

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this mo… read more

Similar categories in Ann Hood's The Stolen Child book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Mercury book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Nightwatching

By: Tracy Sierra

3.86

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The Fallon Spring Reads Book Club Pick A mother is forced to the breaking point when her life an… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Sierra's Nightwatching book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

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17. Kill Show

By: Daniel Sweren-Becker

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole…"

-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show

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18. Reef Road

By: Deborah Goodrich Royce

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two w… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Granite Harbor

By: Peter Nichols

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more

Similar categories in Peter Nichols's Granite Harbor book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Girl from the Red Rose Motel

By: Susan Beckham Zurenda

3.93

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

"Impoverished high school junior Hazel Smalls and privileged senior Sterling Lovell would never ord… read more

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21. Days of Wonder

By: Caroline Leavitt

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt returns with a tantalizing, courageous story abo… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Leavitt's Days of Wonder book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. Neena Lee Is Seeing Things

By: Sheila Athens

4.33

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

When a travel writer haunted by old ghosts comes face to face with a new one—who just happens to be… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Athens's Neena Lee Is Seeing Things book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • fiction
Cover of Daughter of a Promise by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

25. Daughter of a Promise

By: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

3.91

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Days after graduating from college, Betsabé Ruiz begins her first job on Wall Street, where she pla… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg's Daughter of a Promise book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • fiction
Cover of City of Books by Nicole  Meier

26. City of Books

By: Nicole Meier

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Jo Waterstone knows what you should read next. She’s honed the skill of sizing up a person and reco… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Meier's City of Books book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internation… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Newman's Worst Case Scenario book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. Mademoiselle Eiffel

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the author of The School for German Brides and A Bakery in Paris, this captivating historical … read more

Similar categories in Aimie K. Runyan's Mademoiselle Eiffel book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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30. The Disappeared

By: Rebecca J. Sanford

4.48

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the real mothers and grandmothers who spoke out against Argentina’s military dictatorsh… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca J. Sanford's The Disappeared book and Deborah Goodrich Royce's Reef Road

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. A Killer's Tears (Collateral Damage #1)

By: Eryn Jaysen

4.38

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Life has never been easy for the strikingly beautiful Alisha Thompson. As an admitted sex addic… read more

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