**Between the three of them, author Alex Michaelides and narrators
Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith cast a spell that will have
listeners glued to this suspenseful novel every chance they get. --
AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
**
Listeners will not be disappointed with this suspenseful and
intelligent thriller. -- Booklist (starred review)
From 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, that further cements
"Michaelides as a major player in the field" (Publishers Weekly).
Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is
untouchable. 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.
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.
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. And she becomes
convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder.
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?
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 Mariana is determined to stop
this killer, even if it costs her everything--including her own life.
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books
Stunning... The intelligent, cerebral plot finds contemporary parallels
in Euripides's tragedies, Jacobean dramas such as The Duchess of Malfi,
and Tennyson's poetry. The devastating ending shows just how little the
troubled Mariana knows about the human psyche or herself. Michaelides is
on a roll.
--Publishers Weekly, starred review
A deliciously dark, elegant, utterly compulsive read*--*with a twist
that blew my mind. I loved this even more than I loved The Silent
Patient and that's saying something!
**--Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest
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