Stone Maidens

Stone Maidens

<p>As the chief forensic anthropologist for the FBI’s Chicago field <br /><br />office, Christine Prusik has worked her fair share of bizarre cases. <br /><br />Yet this one trumps them all: a serial killer is strangling young women <br /><br />and dumping their bodies in the steep, forested ravines of southern <br /><br />Indiana. With each victim, the killer leaves a calling card: a stone <br /><br />figurine carved like the spirit stones found among the primitive tribes <br /><br />of Papua New Guinea—the same tribes from whom Prusik narrowly escaped a <br /><br />decade earlier while doing field research. The similarity is eerie and, <br /><br />frankly, terrifying; Prusik still carries the scars from the <br /><br />tribesmen’s attack. But is the connection real? Or have the dark <br /><br />details of Prusik’s nightmares finally wormed their way into her waking <br /><br />life? Displaying the expertise of a veteran writer, debut novelist <br /><br />Lloyd Devereux Richards skillfully builds layers of psychological <br /><br />suspense and terror into a compulsively readable whodunit.