

Mariana heads for Cambridge and, when the police arrest someone she thinks is innocent, starts her own investigation. Zoe has terrible news: Her close friend Tara has been murdered, savagely stabbed and dumped in a wood. Zoe is now studying at Cambridge, where Mariana and Sebastian met and courted.

She’s galvanized out of her fog by a call from her niece, Zoe, who was raised by Mariana and Sebastian after her parents died. At 36, she’s a widow, reeling from the drowning a year before of her beloved husband, Sebastian. This book’s protagonist is Mariana, who has a busy practice in London specializing in group therapy. The author’s second novel features a psychotherapist as its main character, as did his 2019 debut, The Silent Patient (whose main character makes an appearance here). A blend of psychological mystery and gothic thriller puts a psychotherapist in pursuit of a serial killer on the campus of Cambridge University.
