The Maiden
27 April 2023Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
The Times bestseller and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award and the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year.
'A masterpiece' – Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal
Inspired by a real-life case, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history.
In the end, it did not...
Details
27 April 2023384 pages
9781529091731Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
The Maiden is a masterpiece. A thrilling historical murder tale but so much more. Vivid, evocative and full of humanity. Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code
This riveting debut novel by Kate Foster takes the true story of the murder [of James Forrester] and spins it into a mystery full of twists . . . The tension persists until the last page.Antonia Senior, The Times
Kate Foster expands the slender facts of the case into something exceptional — a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant.Daily Mail
Threat hangs over every page like the awaiting guillotine, but the women in this book gleam sharper. Witty, gritty and full of heart, their voices rise through the brutality and hardship of 17th century Edinburgh, battling to be heardCari Thomas, bestselling author of Threadneedle
