The Quiet Wife

Elena Vance reads people for a living - the tilt of a shoulder, the weight of a silence, the half-second pause between feeling something and doing something. She's spent fifteen years teaching powerful men to control that pause. She's never once failed to see it coming. Until her husband begins to slip away from her in small, ordinary ways. And the wrong note she files on a Tuesday afternoon - a land deal on West 44th, paperwork "already done before they started" - pulls her into a world where the smartest person in the room is the one who's been watching all along. The Quiet Wife is the first novel in the Elena Vance series. It is for readers who loved the domestic tension of Gone Girl, the structural innovation of The Silent Patient, and the pacing of The Housemaid - and who want a protagonist whose greatest strength is the thing that blinds her.