Sleeping With The Crawfish

By D.J. Donaldson

Strange lesions found in the brain of a dead man have forensic pathologist Andy 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HighLine Editions
• Release date: Mar 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781938231391

D.J. Donaldson

Donald (Don) Jay Donaldson, who also writes as David Best, was born in 1940 and is a now retired professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology. He holds a Ph.D. in human anatomy and his entire academic career was spent at the University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, where he published dozens of papers on wound-healing, and taught microscopic anatomy to thousands of medical and dental students. 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. He is the author of five medical thrillers and seven forensic mysteries, the latter featuring the hugely overweight and equally brilliant New Orleans medical examiner, Andy Broussard, and his gorgeous psychologist sidekick, Kit Franklyn. Of these it has been said that they contain ‘lots of Louisiana color, pinpoint plotting and two highly likable characters’, whilst the Los Angeles Times states ‘the autopsies are detailed enough to make Patricia Cornwell fans move farther south for their forensic fixes ….. splendidly eccentric local denizens, authentic New Orleans and bayou backgrounds’.

Reviews for Sleeping With The Crawfish

[celticlady53 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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.