diff --git a/reaper_test.go b/reaper_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b756c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reaper_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+// Copyright 2024 The go-zeromq Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package zmq4
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"io"
+	"net"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestConnReaperDeadlock2(t *testing.T) {
+	ep := must(EndPoint("tcp"))
+	defer cleanUp(ep)
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+
+	// Bind the server.
+	srv := NewRouter(ctx, WithLogger(Devnull)).(*routerSocket)
+	if err := srv.Listen(ep); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("could not listen on %q: %+v", ep, err)
+	}
+	defer srv.Close()
+
+	// Add modified clients connection to server
+	// so any send to client will trigger context switch
+	// and be failing.
+	// Idea is that while srv.Send is progressing,
+	// the connection will be closed and assigned
+	// for connection reaper, and reaper will try to remove those
+	id := "client-x"
+	srv.sck.mu.Lock()
+	rmw := srv.sck.w.(*routerMWriter)
+	for i := 0; i < 2; i++ {
+		w := &Conn{}
+		w.Peer.Meta = make(Metadata)
+		w.Peer.Meta[sysSockID] = id
+		w.rw = &sockSendEOF{}
+		w.onCloseErrorCB = srv.sck.scheduleRmConn
+		// Do not to call srv.addConn as we dont want to have listener on this fake socket
+		rmw.addConn(w)
+		srv.sck.conns = append(srv.sck.conns, w)
+	}
+	srv.sck.mu.Unlock()
+
+	// Now try to send a message from the server to all clients.
+	msg := NewMsgFrom(nil, nil, []byte("payload"))
+	msg.Frames[0] = []byte(id)
+	if err := srv.Send(msg); err != nil {
+		t.Logf("Send to %s failed: %+v\n", id, err)
+	}
+}
+
+type sockSendEOF struct {
+}
+
+var a atomic.Int32
+
+func (r *sockSendEOF) Write(b []byte) (n int, err error) {
+	// Each odd write fails asap.
+	// Each even write fails after sleep.
+	// Such a way we ensure the short write failure
+	// will cause socket be assinged to connection reaper
+	// while srv.Send is still in progress due to long writes.
+	if x := a.Add(1); x&1 == 0 {
+		time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
+	}
+	return 0, io.EOF
+}
+
+func (r *sockSendEOF) Read(b []byte) (int, error) {
+	return 0, nil
+}
+
+func (r *sockSendEOF) Close() error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (r *sockSendEOF) LocalAddr() net.Addr {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (r *sockSendEOF) RemoteAddr() net.Addr {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (r *sockSendEOF) SetDeadline(t time.Time) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (r *sockSendEOF) SetReadDeadline(t time.Time) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (r *sockSendEOF) SetWriteDeadline(t time.Time) error {
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/socket.go b/socket.go
index ca198a6..7a41c71 100644
--- a/socket.go
+++ b/socket.go
@@ -384,10 +384,16 @@ func (sck *socket) connReaper() {
 			return
 		}
 
-		for _, c := range sck.closedConns {
+		// Clone the known closed connections to avoid data race
+		// and remove those under reaper unlocked.
+		// That should fix the deadlock reported in #149.
+		cc := append([]*Conn{}, sck.closedConns...) // clone
+		sck.closedConns = sck.closedConns[:0]
+		sck.reaperCond.L.Unlock()
+		for _, c := range cc {
 			sck.rmConn(c)
 		}
-		sck.closedConns = nil
+		sck.reaperCond.L.Lock()
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/zall_test.go b/zall_test.go
index c3cd079..90fc514 100644
--- a/zall_test.go
+++ b/zall_test.go
@@ -5,10 +5,41 @@
 package zmq4
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"log"
+	"net"
 )
 
 var (
 	Devnull = log.New(io.Discard, "zmq4: ", 0)
 )
+
+func must(str string, err error) string {
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return str
+}
+
+func EndPoint(transport string) (string, error) {
+	switch transport {
+	case "tcp":
+		addr, err := net.ResolveTCPAddr("tcp", "localhost:0")
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+		l, err := net.ListenTCP("tcp", addr)
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+		defer l.Close()
+		return fmt.Sprintf("tcp://%s", l.Addr()), nil
+	case "ipc":
+		return "ipc://tmp-" + newUUID(), nil
+	case "inproc":
+		return "inproc://tmp-" + newUUID(), nil
+	default:
+		panic("invalid transport: [" + transport + "]")
+	}
+}