![]() As tremulous as any Gothic heroine, Mariana goes toe-to-toe with assorted scornful and seductive male authority figures while trying to get to the truth. ![]() There are assignations in graveyards and notorious parties and scads of classical references. The students-the eponymous maidens-cluster around a Byronic male classics professor, and our heroine, Mariana, worries that her beloved niece might also have come under his spell. This frankly preposterous tale of a widowed psychotherapist investigating a series of suspicious deaths among women students at Cambridge University is great, silly fun. Michaelides writes high-end thrillers set among the cultured elite and replete with women smothered by convention and domineering men. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, performed by Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrick-Smith
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