The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

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Another great book with a twist!
Mariana reminisces about her late husband and their memories as she tries to hang onto him a little longer. She’s a group therapist and has one patient she and the group struggle with, Henry. Henry has anger issues and was overcoming the extreme childhood abuse inflicted by his father until he began college. Then college overwhelmed him. Marina has a niece, Zoe, who’s attending Cambridge and calls Mariana when her friend Tara goes missing. As Mariana is traveling on a train to meet Zoe, she encounters Fred, a young man who kindly insists that they will meet again. After Mariana arrives at the college, she’s pulled into a belief that a professor is a murderer and she wants to prove it and goes to great lengths to do so as young women are murdered. The story alternates with the background of an abused victim and eventually the reader learns who it is. Another great book with a twist from Alex Michaelides, 5 stars!

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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The best twist I didn’t see coming!

Alicia (painter) loves her husband but stops herself from thinking too deeply about how far she would go to be one with him. Next, she’s accused of murdering him after being found in their home with her wrists cut and her husband chained to a chair dead from a shooting to his face.
Then Theo, a psychotherapist, is introduced and he’s hired for a job at Grove, the hospital where Alicia now resides.
Theo breaks through Alicia’s silence and she gives him her diary. This gives Theo insight into Alicia’s trauma and evidence of the murder.
I don’t want to say more because it may spoil it for future readers, but this is an encompassing book full of intelligent twists! I highly recommend reading this intense murder mystery!