Alex Michaelides

'An absolute jaw-dropper' LUCY FOLEY 'Absolutely brilliant ... A thrilling, heart-in-throat ride' STEPHEN FRY From the author of the global #1 bestselling debut The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding literary thriller which weaves together Greek mythology, psychology, and murder... St Christopher's College, Cambridge, is a closed world to most. For Mariana Andros - a group therapist struggling through her private grief - it's where she met her late husband. For her niece, Zoe, it's the tragic scene of her best friend's murder. As memory and mystery entangle Mariana, she finds a society full of secrets, which has been shocked to its core by the murder of one of its own. Because behind its idyllic beauty is a web of jealousy and rage which emanates from an exclusive set of students known only as The Maidens. A group under the sinister influence of the enigmatic professor Edward Fosca. A man who seems to know more than anyone about the murders - and the victims. And the man who will become the prime suspect in Mariana's investigation - an obsession which will unravel everything... The Maidens is a story of love, and of grief - of what makes us who we are, and what makes us kill. * * * * * 'Elegant, 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.'CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of WE BEGIN AT THE END 'Grips from intriguing start to horrifying finish ... A brilliant achievement.' HARRIET TYCE 'A page-turner of the first order' DAVID BALDACCI 'The greatest campus novel since The Secret History by Donna Tartt ... with a climatic twist that you will NEVER see coming.' TONY PARSONS 'A stunning psychological thriller ... Michaelides is on a roll.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

The new thriller from the author of the global bestselling debut The Silent Patient

The Maidens

haley kendall owen

Brooke Barnett

Bianca Miller 

If you’re not aware of the transcendent, if you’re not awake to the glorious mystery of life and death that you’re lucky enough to be part of- if that doesn’t fill you with joy and strike you with awe… you might as well not be alive. That’s the message of the tragedies…

laci fryman <3

reading about life was no preparation for living it. 

Alli

Edward Fosca was a murderer. This was a fact. This wasn't something Mariana knew just on an intellectual level, as an idea. Her body knew it. She felt it in her bones, along her blood, and deep within every cell.

High Fidelity

you might find it helpful to talk to Theo.”

“Why not? Psychopathy is, after all, his special subject. He’s quite brilliant. Any insights he has are bound to be useful.”

surtified™

Since Sebastian died, Mariana no longer saw the world in color. Life was muted and gray and far away, behind a veil— behind a mist of sadness.

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