Episode 3691: What Really Happened to Roxie? | Carol Snow’s The Girl on the Beach Psychological Thriller episode artwork

EPISODE · May 14, 2026 · 27 MIN

Episode 3691: What Really Happened to Roxie? | Carol Snow’s The Girl on the Beach Psychological Thriller

from This Week in America with Ric Bratton · host Ric Bratton

The Girl on the Beach by Carol Snow“In a world of privilege and pretense, a young girl vanishes. Carol Snow’s propulsive and gripping The Girl On The Beach reels you in with a darkly charged love triangle and rich, compelling characters—none of them innocent. Just when you think you understand what happened, a shocking twist upends everything.” —Mary Dixie Carter, author of Marguerite by the Lake and The PhotographerA missing child. A shattered family. And a truth that refuses to stay buried.Acclaimed novelist Carol Snow returns with The Girl on the Beach (Crooked Lane Books; June 23, 2026), a gripping psychological thriller set against the deceptively idyllic coastline of Santa Barbara’s “American Riviera.”When four-year-old Roxie Starr disappears into the Pacific Ocean on a perfect summer day, the tragedy destroys her glamorous, high-profile family and leaves their young nanny, Colleen, haunted by guilt. Months later, Colleen returns to the beach house and sees something impossible: a child who looks exactly like Roxie.What follows is a chilling unraveling of memory, grief, and truth as Colleen questions everything she thought she knew about that day and the family she once trusted.With a dual timeline that moves between a sunlit summer and a shadowed aftermath, The Girl on the Beach explores: ● The unreliability of memory ● The psychology of guilt and trauma ● The secrets hidden beneath wealth and privilege Perfect for fans of psychological suspense, the novel builds to a jaw-dropping twist.Carol Snow is an American author of ten novels, most recently THE GIRL ON THE BEACH, a psychological thriller slated for June 2026 publication. Called “an author to watch” by Booklist, recognition for Snow’s previous titles includes: Target Bookmarked Breakout Selection, Amazon Editors’ Pick: Best Books of the Month, and Readers’ Crown Award Finalist.Foreign rights to Snow’s books have been sold to publishers in Germany, Norway, Poland, Indonesia, and Hungary. A former contributor to Salon’s “Mother’s Who Think” column, her writing has also appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books and Park City Magazine.Carol Snow holds a BA in psychology from Brown University and an MA in teaching English from Boston College. A native of New Jersey, she has lived all over the US, as well as in Strasbourg, France, and London, England. Married with two adult children, she now splits her time between Cape Cod and Southern California.To learn more about Carol Snow and her books, please visit www.carolsnow.com.https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Beach-Thriller-Carol-Snow/dp/B0FSC6XDBNhttps://www.carolsnow.com/https://www.instagram.com/carol_snowhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/270463.Carol_Snow

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