A stroke of genius to name the book after a character who died before the events of the story start to take place. 
 The shadow Rebecca casts over the unnamed narrator's life, and her strained "romance" with Max (I have to say he tends to treat her more like a daughter than a wife) build up such a wave of suspense that as the reader you get to the point where you simply cannot put the book down anymore. 
 Adored it.