Sleeping With The Crawfish: an Andy Broussard/Kit Franklyn mystery

The Story

When a fresh cadaver is delivered to his lab, forensic pathologist Andy Broussard uses fingerprints to identify the body. He discovers that the deceased is a convict supposedly serving time in the Louisiana state prison, and prison officials claim that the man is still in his cell. Broussard enlists the help of his former colleague Kit Franklyn to discover the truth behind the bizarre turn of events. Kit travels up to the prison to photograph and fingerprint the convict. However, upon her arrival the prison officials claim that the convict in question died during the night and was cremated immediately. Unable to gain the cooperation of the warden, Kit heads home only to be run off the darkened road by a speeding vehicle. Kit loses consciousness as the black murky waters of the bayou slowly close over her car.