If you loved Rebecca, read The Restoration

What they share

Manderley and Aldercroft are the same kind of house: vast, beautiful, cut off from the world, and governed by rules no one explains. Both have a wealthy, soft-spoken man at the center, and a death in the past that everyone has agreed not to discuss. In Rebecca it is the first wife. In The Restoration it is the wife's first husband, who died six years ago in what was ruled an accident.

Where The Restoration goes its own way

There is no Mrs. Danvers. The house itself does her job. Aldercroft has no staff at all; it watches through a lens hidden in a plaster medallion, logs every door, and answers messages before you have finished typing them. The newcomer here is not a young bride but a professional with a criminal secret of her own, and the thing that won't stay buried is painted on the wall.

Read it if you like

Gothic houses, a first marriage that ended in tragedy, a husband everyone admires, and dread built from silence rather than shocks.

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