If you loved Gone Girl, read The Restoration
What they share
Gone Girl taught a generation of readers to distrust a marriage that looks perfect in the press. Arthur and Vivienne Voss are that kind of couple: a magazine profile calls him "The Gentle Machine", the photographs show him looking at her, not the camera. Beneath the public story there is a death that was ruled an accident, and a version of events that doesn't quite hold together.
Where The Restoration goes its own way
We never get inside the marriage. We watch it from outside, through the eyes of a woman who lives in the house but is forbidden to speak to the wife. Clara Reyes sees the gaps the way a restorer sees old damage under fresh paint, and the closer she looks, the more she has to lose.
Read it if you like
Marriages that are performances, a husband the world adores, official stories with missing pieces, and a thriller that makes you reread earlier scenes.