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The Maidens

The Maidens

Author(s): Alex Michaelides

Location(s): Cambridge

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Contemporary

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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.

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Author: Tina Hartas

3.75* This is a modern day mystery, with plenty of literary references and a cast of colourfully drawn characters, all set in the world of academia. Cambridge makes an excellent backdrop with its wonderful...

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