Episode 3768: Carol Snow – The Girl on the Beach: A Twisty Psychological Thriller About Secrets, Suspicion & a Missing Child Weekend of 8-29

What if the truth you were searching for made you question everything you thought you knew?Author Carol Snow joins Ric Bratton on This Week in America to discuss her gripping psychological thriller, The Girl on the Beach.Sonia and Graham Starr appear to have everything—wealth, success, a beautiful beach house, and their beloved four-year-old daughter, Roxie. But their seemingly perfect life is shattered when Roxie disappears into the Pacific Ocean.Months later, Roxie’s former nanny, Colleen, returns to the Starrs’ beach house carrying guilt, confusion, and unanswered questions. Then she sees something impossible: a child on the beach who looks remarkably like Roxie.Colleen never believed the little girl, who was afraid of the surf, would have entered the ocean on her own. Determined to discover what really happened, she begins searching for answers—only to find herself questioning what she sees, what she remembers, and whom she can trust.Carol Snow talks with Ric about creating a psychological thriller built around memory, perception, family secrets, guilt, trust, and deception, as well as the challenge of delivering twists without giving readers the answers too soon. The Girl on the Beach ultimately poses a haunting question: Who can we trust when we can’t even trust ourselves?This Week in America with Ric Bratton is heard on more than 100 radio stations and podcast platforms worldwide, featuring conversations with authors, experts, innovators, and thought leaders from across the country and around the world.If you enjoy psychological thrillers, missing-person mysteries, domestic suspense, unreliable narrators, family secrets, and novels packed with unexpected twists, don’t miss Ric Bratton’s conversation with Carol Snow about The Girl on the Beach.Keywords: Carol Snow, The Girl on the Beach, Carol Snow author, psychological thriller, psychological suspense, thriller books, mystery books, missing child mystery, domestic thriller, domestic suspense, family secrets, unreliable narrator, suspense novels, beach read thriller, mystery thriller, crime fiction, Crooked Lane Books, author interview, book interview, Ric Bratton, This Week in America, TWIA podcast