The Maidens: A Novel by Alex Michaelides. Celadon Books(Macmillan), 2021. Adult fiction, suspense.Mariana's niece, Zoe, is a student at Cambridge. One of her friends is murdered. Mariana is a group therapist still grieving for her husband who drowned in her homeland, Greece. When Mariana goes back to her own campus to comfort Zoe, she becomes entangled in the mystery. Is the dazzling American professor involved? What about the troubled patients Mariana is treating? And, then, can the handful of beautiful young women be connected? Just as the plot thickens, another young student is killed. Can Mariana help find the killer before she is a victim herself?
The tale is fast paced with relatively short chapters. There are lots of characters, but the author keeps them all delineated well. While there is some Greek mythology central to the plot, readers do not have to be experts to figure out the allusions. This is Michaelides' second novel following his highly successful The Silent Patient.
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