Alex Michaelides' "The Maidens" is a gothic mystery. Mariana is the detective type trying to solve "who done it." She's a group therapist who was recently widowed. Her niece, whom she helped bring up when her sister died, had a friend who was murdered. More girls are murdered. The setting is the college where her niece attended. The red herring is a Greek tragedy professor. It's his "groupies" that are nicknamed "The Maidens" that are being murdered.
Mariana is annoying because she always chooses the wrong thing to do. What bothered me the most was the author's method of writing inner dialogue. I'm not even sure these inner thoughts were the murderer's. A chapter would be written in bold print; that's how the reader would know that they were reading "inner thoughts." But whose?
I still don't know.
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