![]() We’re supposed to suspect Fosca from the start, so he couldn’t turn out to be the murderer. Michaelides really raises the dramatic stakes with his prologue gambit. Zoe claims that the night before Tara died, Tara accused the professor of threatening her life. The Maidens, “distinctive young women” who prance about campus in long white dresses. ![]() She comes to the certainty that Fosca himself is targeting the elegant, elite female students who make up his private study group, a.k.a. ![]() As she gets more deeply entwined and more suspicious of the professor, Mariana plans to rely on her “instinctive knowledge of human nature” to figure out who killed Tara. Mariana is determined to protect Zoe, who she thinks knows more than she’s telling, especially regarding the possible involvement of Fosca, the sinister professor of Greek tragedy. As a shy student, she first encountered her future husband Sebastian there, “emerging like some strange mythical creature, a demigod born in water” after he fell off his punt. ![]() With already a lot to fret over, including a troubled, and perhaps dangerous, patient, Mariana returns to her alma mater Cambridge. Zoe, who Mariana considers her “surrogate daughter,” sounds scared: Her close friend Tara, a fellow student, is missing, and an unidentified body has been found murdered in marshland near the college. ![]()
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