The Maidens

The Maidens**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "Alex Michaelidess long awaited next novel, 'The Maidens,' is finally here the premise is enticing and the elements irresistible." The New York Times "A deliciously dark, elegant, utterly compulsive readwith a twist that blew my mind. I loved this even more than I loved The Silent Patient and that's saying something!" Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List From the #1 New York Times

and the grounds troubled by a strange

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world

and the cost of breaking from tradition

joined by a fresh flock of relatives from the French branch of the Swift family tree—the Martinets

Julia offers readers a new way to think about cooking

desperate-for-love cousin Lucy

and one every crime reader and writer needs to celebrate” (Louise Penny

When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father

The extraordinary

So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio

in a boat whose motor just died

pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers