REEF ROAD

Saskia Maarleveld narrates this intriguing thriller about two apparently unconnected women in south Florida during Covid lockdown. A young wife reports that her husband and two children have been missing from their toney home on Reef Road. Nearby, an eccentric, solitary writer is obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's childhood best friend many years earlier. Maarleveld employs a similar tone for the alternating chapters, but her well-paced narration is vested with an underlying tension that sustains the listener through the slower-paced first half of the audiobook. As the characters' stories overlap and deceptions are exposed, Maarleveld's portrayals reveal the cunning and desperation of the more sinister players. N.M.C. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2023]