Books like The Maidens
Mariana Andros, a group therapist grieving her husband, goes to Cambridge to support her niece after a student is murdered, and becomes convinced the killer is Edward Fosca, a charismatic professor of Greek tragedy with a secret circle of female students called the Maidens.
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The Family Upstairs
On her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones learns she has inherited a mansion in Chelsea, the house where, as a ten-month-old, she was found in her cot with three bodies downstairs and the other children who had lived there gone.
The Secret History
A scholarship student from California joins an insular circle of classics students at a Vermont college, and their experiments with Dionysian ritual end in a death they cover up with a murder.
Then She Was Gone
Ten years after her fifteen-year-old daughter Ellie walked out of the house towards the library and never came back, Laurel Mack meets a charming man in a café, and is startled by how much his young daughter looks like Ellie.
The Sculptress
Rosalind Leigh, a writer under pressure from her publisher, agrees to write a book about Olive Martin, a huge, silent woman serving life for killing her mother and sister, and begins to doubt she did it.
The Lying Game
Isa Wilde, a young mother in London, gets a three-word text from Kate, one of her three closest friends from boarding school, and goes back to the Sussex coast where a bone has been found on the shore.
The Kind Worth Killing
Stuck in a bar at Heathrow, Ted Severson drunkenly tells a beautiful stranger named Lily that his wife is cheating on him and that he would like to kill her, and Lily, quite calmly, offers to help.
Into the Water
Single mother Nel Abbott is found dead in the river pool at Beckford where troubled women have drowned for centuries, and her estranged sister Jules returns to the town she swore she would never see again to look after Nel's fifteen-year-old daughter.
My Husband's Wife
Artist Eden Fox comes home from a morning run in the seaside village of Hope Falls to find that her key no longer works, and the woman who answers the door, who looks just like her, says she is Harrison's wife, and Harrison agrees.
If We Were Villains
Ten years after a death at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver Marks walks out of prison and finally tells the detective who put him there what happened among seven fourth-year acting students who lived and breathed Shakespeare.
Good Girl, Bad Girl
Cyrus Haven, a forensic psychologist in Nottingham, is asked to assess Evie Cormac, a girl found hiding in a secret room six years ago who can tell when people are lying, while he helps the police with the murder of a teenage figure-skating star.
The Only One Left
In 1983 Kit McDeere, a disgraced caregiver, is sent to Hope's End, a crumbling cliffside mansion in Maine, to look after Lenora Hope, who as a girl in 1929 was said to have killed her family and now can only communicate through a typewriter.
The Ice House
A body is found rotting in the ice house at Streech Grange, where Phoebe Maybury's husband went missing ten years ago, and the village, which never forgave Phoebe or the two women who live with her, waits for the police to finish what they started.