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Title: Louisiana Fever: An Andy Broussard/Kit Franklin Mystery (Andy Broussard/Kit Franklyn Mysteries (Paperback)) by D. J. Donaldson ISBN: 0-312-96257-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Out of Africa, Into New Orleans
Comment: Ebola-type fever gains a handhold in the City of Lights. The first victim is a rose-bearing admirer of Kit Franklyn, and the expert diagnostician is Andy Broussard. This is my first outing with the duo I have heard so much about. (...) Andy is a treat. He’s not a conventional hero—a mite too heavy, too old, and too curmudgeonly. He wins us with his strength, humor, and doggedness.
The true villain of the piece will chill. He is patient, resourceful and completely focused. The author does a wonderful job of describing near misses by the villain while the characters are blissfully unaware of their brushes with death. The gradual discovery of what is killing these victims raises the suspense level and contributes to fast page turning. The New Orleans descriptions are done with the eye of a native; no bland touristy snapshots intrude.
The autopsy scenes are quite intense (read before eating). The plot has some extraneous genealogy that I found tiresome. (...) However, it’s a good, fast, interesting read, and I look forward to reading more about Andy & Kit.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Story Of Greed
Comment: Kit Franklin receives an invitation to meet a mysterious admirer at Grandma O's Restaurant. She is curious because the unknown suitor has been sending roses to her for three straight days. When Kit arrives at the restaurant, she is greeted by a sixtyish stranger who speaks her name and then promptly collapses. The man later dies in a hospital of unknown causes. Then Kit disappears and the authorities suspect she is a kidnap victim. On one level this book is about greed and the harm caused by families trying too hard to bury secrets from the past. There are just enough strands to the story to make it interesting but not too confusing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why Haven't You Read Broussard & Franklyn Yet?
Comment: In this installment of the Kit Franklin/Andy Broussard Mystery Series, Andy's hash is in the deep-fat fryer and it's up to Kit to save him. The only problem is that Kit's been kidnaped.
Add to that the deepening mysteries surrounding Kit's origins, romance trouble and a deadly virus, and you get a rich mystery steeped in medical examiner lore and true human feelings.
I appreciate the author's no-nonsense writing style and his quirky, but not over-the-top, cast of characters. Of late, the New Orleans Mystery has become a cliche, riddled with parades, politics, French Quarter dining and Bourbon Street debauchery. Donaldson eschews the gimmicks and serves up sensible, well-written stories using New Orleans, a city he obviously loves, almost as a character. Donaldson's mysteries feel like real life (albeit a life I wouldn't want to live) and his characters feel like people who live there, instead of tourists.
Donaldson seems to have stopped writing the Broussard/Franklin mysteries (he's now writing medical thrillers as Don Donaldson) so you can be sad that it's all over or be thrilled that this is a series you can read, start to finish, without having to wait for some slow-poke writer to release the next installment. Give it a try...you'll like it.
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Title: New Orleans Requiem by D. J. Donaldson ISBN: 0373261888 Publisher: World Wide Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Louisiana Bigshot: A Talba Wallis Novel (Talba Wallis) by Julie Smith ISBN: 0765343800 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sleeping With the Crawfish by D.J. Donaldson ISBN: 0312966814 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Missing Justice by Alafair Burke ISBN: 0805073922 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Known World by Edward P. Jones ISBN: 0060557540 Publisher: Amistad Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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