Maidens of the Cave, Lloyd Devereux Richards
Maidens of the Cave, Lloyd Devereux Richards
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Maidens of the Cave
A Novel

Author: Lloyd Devereux Richards

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2023

Synopsis

From TikTok sensation Lloyd Devereux Richards, author of Stone Maidens, comes the next pulse-pounding thriller in which FBI agent Christine Prusik races to track down a serial killer who leaves a peculiar mark on his victimsForensic anthropologist Christine Prusik has a knack for solving the most unusual cases—and for bending the rules in the process.When the bodies of young women start appearing in the caves of Indiana and Illinois, Christine immediately jumps into action. But her Chicago field office is undergoing a reorganization, and the boys’ club at the top seem more interested in getting all the paperwork in order than solving the murders.Christine isn’t going to let a little red tape stop her, and when she discovers that all the bodies have the same mysterious pin-sized bruise on the back of their necks, she realizes she’ll have to confront her own inner demons to find the killer. 

About Lloyd Devereux Richards

Lloyd Devereux Richards was born in New York City and traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Central America before attending law school. He previously served as a senior law clerk for an Indiana Court of Appeals judge, researching and writing drafts for dozens of published opinions, including the appeal of a serial killer sentenced to death. A father of three, he lives with his wife, Cameron O’Connor, and their two dogs in Montpelier, Vermont. This is his second novel, after Stone Maidens.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on August 05, 2023

We meet Christine Prusik, a feisty FBI agent, who doesn’t like to follow the rules but always solves cases. Christine is told that she has no business investigating the deaths of two young women on a college campus because it is out of the FBI’s jurisdiction, but she doesn’t care. She cares about mak......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on August 04, 2023

Very good follow up I loved the first book and this one was almost as good and still a five star read for sure. The heroine annoyed me as well as the new director, Gaston. She was all about the paperwork and meetings, instead of pursuing the killer. It was an interesting premise for sure using a dea......more

Goodreads review by madilyn on January 29, 2025

While I enjoyed the first book for the most part and love Christine’s character (and Richards’ writing in general, very talented), I found this book to be extremely overfilled with complex sentence structures and entirely too many side characters and stories that often left me confused. In addition......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin on December 22, 2023

If you've never read a detective/mystery novel, you might like this. I love a good detective novel and this one ain't it. The whole time I was thinking "no one talks like this" "academics aren't like this" "this lady is kind of dumb". It feels like most of the problems the main character has with th......more

Goodreads review by Christine on August 09, 2023

Maidens of the Cave is a sequel to Stone Maidens, which I haven't read, but this new book works wonderfully as a standalone. I connected with the main character, Christine, right away. Christine Prusik is a forensic anthropologist working for the Chicago branch of the FBI. She is determined to catch......more

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