The millions who loved The Silent Patient will be delighted to hear that Alex Michaelides once again mugs you with a climatic twist that you will NEVER see coming. Packed to the dreaming spires with mystery, murder, emotion and a yearning, heart-aching nostalgia for all that we leave in the past - places, lovers and ourselves when we were young. The greatest campus novel since The Secret History by Donna Tartt. The devastating ending shows just how little the troubled Mariana knows about the human psyche or herself. The intelligent, cerebral plot finds contemporary parallels in Euripides's tragedies, Jacobean dramas such as The Duchess of Malfi, and Tennyson's poetry. ― DAVID BALDACCIĪ stunning psychological thriller. The Maidens is a page-turner of the first order.

I loved this even more than I loved The Silent Patient and that's saying something! ― LUCY FOLEYĪlex Michaelides hits a home run in his sophomore effort. ― STEPHEN FRYĪ deliciously dark, elegant, utterly compulsive read - with a twist that blew my mind. ― CHRIS WHITAKERĪlex has achieved the almost impossible and surpassed The Silent Patient in this compelling literary thriller, which grips from intriguing start to horrifying finish.

But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything - including her own life.Įlegant, sinister, stylish and thrilling, The Maidens answers the weighty question, how do you go about following one of the biggest thrillers of the past decade? You write something even better. When another body is found, Mariana's obsession with proving Fosca's guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld? And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike - particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. The Maidens: The new thriller from the author of the global bestselling debut The Silent Patient (TV Adaptation coming soon) – BookaliciousMYįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession.Įdward Fosca is a murderer.

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