Stone Maidens
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| Author | Lloyd Devereux Richards |
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| Publisher | Thomas & Mercer |
Publication date | November 6, 2012 |
Stone Maidens is a 2013 thriller novel by Lloyd Devereux Richards. In February 2023, it reached #1 on the Amazon best seller list 10 years after its release - after Richards' daughter made a viral TikTok video promoting the book.[1][2][3][4][5]
The novel features a forensic anthropologist at the FBI trying to solve the murders of several women in southern Indiana and discover the suspected serial killer behind their deaths.[1]
Richards began writing the novel in 1998.[1] He was inspired by unsolved crimes he had heard about while attending law school at Indiana University.[1] The final draft of the book was finished in 2009, but Richards was turned down by 80 literary agents before he was published by Thomas & Mercer in 2012.[1][4]