I loved the setting – I know nothing about Cambridge University and if this is accurate (I have no reason to believe it isn’t, the author has a degree from there) it’s very different to university here but it has a really interesting academic kind of feel and there were parts of the story itself that were really compelling and enjoyable. On the one hand, there are things about it I really enjoyed. Usually I know what I’m going to rate a book well before I finish it but this one? I’m so conflicted. When I finished it, I couldn’t decide what to rate it for over an hour. But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything-including her own life. 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 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? And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. 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. 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. 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.
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