![]() They, under the leadership of Fosca, are into an ancient cult that was particularly focused on the line between life and death. He has assembled around him a small cult, female students who dress alike, attend private instruction with him, and who knows what else? They are known as The Maidens. A gifted teacher of classics, Fosca ( This name derives from the Latin “fuscus”, meaning “gloomy, dark, black, (voice) hoarse, hollow, cavernous, (of thoughts) dark, secret, occult” – uh, oh – from ) has a Svengali-ish charm. In no time she has ID’d a likely suspect and proceeds to find out everything she can, hoping, expecting to show that Professor Edward Fosca is a murderer.Īlex Michaelides – image from The Irish Times – photo by Manuel Vazquez When Zoe calls her aunt from Cambridge to tell her that her best friend has gone missing, Mariana Andros, a group therapist in London, heads to her alma mater immediately. ![]() ![]() ![]() It felt as if a kind of pestilence, a plague, were spreading through the college-like in a Greek myth, the sickness that destroyed Thebes an invisible airborne poison drifting through the courtyards-and these ancient walls, once a refuge from the outside world, no longer offered any protection. ![]()
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