06 August 2014

Sleeping with the Crawfish by D.J. Donaldson Review!



Book Details

  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper; First Edition edition (December 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312966814
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312966812

Andy Broussard, the plump and proud New Orleans medical examiner, obviously loves food.  Less apparent to the casual observer is his hatred of murderers. Together with his gorgeous sidekick, psychologist Kit Franklyn, the two make a powerful, although improbable, mystery solving duo.
Strange lesions found in the brain of a dead man have forensic pathologist Broussard stumped.  Even more baffling are the corpse’s fingerprints.  They belong to Ronald Cicero, a lifer at Angola State Prison… an inmate the warden insists is still there.  Broussard sends psychologist Kit Franklyn to find out who is locked up in Cicero’s cell.  But an astonishing discovery at the jail and an attempt on her life almost has Kit sleeping with the crawfish in a bayou swamp. And Broussard, making a brilliant deduction about another murder, may soon be digging his own grave.

D.J. Donaldson’s brilliant first-hand knowledge of forensics, combined with a sultry flavor of New Orleans, equals a series that provides “sheer pulse-pounding reading excitement”(The Clarion Ledger) and “genuinely heart-stopping suspense” (Publisher’s Weekly).  With ingenuity and authentic detail, Donaldson presents a first class forensic procedural within an irresistibly delectable mystery.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
D.J. Donaldson is a retired professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology.  His entire academic career was spent at the University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, where he published dozens of papers on wound-healing and where he taught microscopic anatomy to thousands of medical and dental students.
He is also the author of seven published forensic mysteries and five medical thrillers. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife and two West Highland terriers. In the spring of most years he simply cannot stop buying new flowers and other plants for the couple’s prized backyard garden.

My Thoughts
After having read a previous novel in this series, I was looking forward to reading Sleeping with the Crawfish. I was not disappointed either.  The pairing of Andy Broussard and Kit Franklyn is an odd match indeed. But I think that they work well together. Kit has left the Medical Examiner's office, feeling that this is not the profession for her especially after what happened in the previous novel, when her co worker Andy asks her to assist him with a new case. As soon as Kit agrees to help Andy, she finds that her life is in danger at every turn. Her car is run off the road and she nearly drowns trying to get out of her car. So who is after her and why? The more that Kit investigates the more corruption she is finding. Can she find out what happened to the dead man or even who he is without joining him in the morgue?

The writing is fast paced and the story line suspenseful, the characters are believable. The Andy Broussard / Kit Franklyn mysteries are definitely worth a read. You don't need to start off with the first book in the series but it does help I think to start at the beginning. You will not be disappointed. I highly recommend the books.

I received a copy of the book for review and was not monetarily compensated for my review.

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