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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. "D.J. Donaldson is superb at spinning medical fact into gripping suspense. With his in-depth knowledge of science and medicine, he is one of very few authors who can write with convincing authority." </p><p>Tess Gerritsen, NY Times best-selling author of the Rizzoli & Isles novels</p><p><p>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 show more gorgeous sidekick, psychologist Kit Franklyn, the two make a powerful, although improbable, mystery solving duo. </p><p><p>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. </p><p><p>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. </p>. show lessTags
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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 show more 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. show less
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. show less
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Don Donaldson was a professor of anatomy at the University of Tennessee. He was also the author of Do No Harm and the successful mystery series featuring New Orleans forensic pathologist Andy Broussard and criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn.
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- Canonical title
- Sleeping with the Crawfish
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Kit Franklyn; Andy Broussard
- Important places
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- 70
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- 435,172
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.10)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 5
