I could see the book turned into a tv film as it had a bit of that TV view of Cambridge University as a hot bed of crime. I am not really keen on dark crime novels so it was a little challenging for me in places but the writer really succeeded in creating a tense atmosphere. For such a strong story teller I was surprised to be left up in the air in the last few lines by the writer and did not quite understand that. It is well written and constructed with a strange ending that reminded me of The novel Rebecca. It built well and the sense of menace became really unsettling. I read this quickly and had to skim over some upsetting details. It doesn't deserve another minute of my life. Oh, I can't be bothered to write any more. So it wasn't even fun reading up until the stupidest denouement in the entire bookshop. There's no light and shade to it whatsoever. She even attacks one of the above in public - it's completely laughable. Then we have Mariana agreeing to meet up with this lecturer in private several times and also meet up with a stranger/stalker she met on a train.
The way she goes for a Cambridge lecturer she's never met, based on hearsay - one comment made by the dead girl to Mariana's niece before she was murdered - is bizarre to say the least. I almost never give one star to a book I actually finish, but this deserved minus one star. And trust me, you'd better clear away all your precious ornaments once you near discovering this as you will hurl the book across the room in total disgust. I cannot believe I finished it, though I did scan the last 50 or so pages, once it became obvious who the perpetrator was. This has to be the stupidest story I've ever read. But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything - including her own life. 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. 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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