'Elegant, sinister, stylish and thrilling, The Maidens answers the weighty question, how do you go about following one of the biggest thrillers of the past decade? You write something even better.'
- Chris Whitaker
'Alex has achieved the almost impossible and surpassed The Silent Patient in this compelling literary thriller, which grips from intriguing start to horrifying finish ... A brilliant achievement.'
- Harriet Tyce
'What a thrilling, heart in throat ride. A great triumph.'
- Stephen Fry
'A deliciously dark, elegant, utterly compulsive read - with a twist that blew my mind. I loved this even more than I loved The Silent Patient and that's saying something!'
- Lucy Foley
'Alex Michaelides hits a home run in his sophomore effort. The Maidens is a page-turner of the first order.'
- David Baldacci
'A stunning psychological thriller ... The intelligent, cerebral plot finds contemporary parallels in Euripides's tragedies, Jacobean dramas such as The Duchess of Malfi, and Tennyson's poetry. The devastating ending shows just how little the troubled Mariana knows about the human psyche or herself. Michaelides is on a roll.'
- Publishers Weekly