Kent Conwell - Tony Boudreaux 02 - Skeletons of the Atchafalaya
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Authors: Kent Conwell
Tags: #Mystery: Thriller - P.I. - Hurricane - Louisiana
| Kent Conwell - Tony Boudreaux 02 - Skeletons of the Atchafalaya | |
| Tony Boudreaux [2] | |
| Kent Conwell | |
| Thomas & Mercer (2003) | |
| Tags: | Mystery: Thriller - P.I. - Hurricane - Louisiana Mystery: Thriller - P.I. - Hurricane - Louisianattt |
Tony and his family find themselves not only cut off from the rest of the world by Belle, a Category Three hurricane, but also confronted with voodoo wangas, an angry family trying to lynch one of its own and a psychotic killer who has decided to double the Boudreaux and Thibodeaux populations in the family cemetery—and by the most unique methods.
This means Tony has to work quickly—before the hurricane strikes and before the murderer kills again.
Kent Conwell
Our family has a saying that good things happen in
threes. However, when we found ourselves in the middle
of three deaths within three or so hours of each other with
a Category Three hurricane zeroing in on us, I decided
that somebody in my family must have been chewing on
locoweed.
Every day, with the exception of Thanksgiving and
Christmas, 122,000 automobiles speed across the elevated
eighteen-mile span of Interstate 10 traversing the Atchafalaya Swamp in Louisiana.
No more than a handful of the occupants of these
122,000 realizes that only thirty feet below there spread
two thousand square miles of forest and swamp that time
forgot.
The very first time Grand-pere Moise drove me down
through the giant bald cypress and spreading water oaks in
the Atchafalaya, I fell under its spell. Entering that shadowy ecosystem of cypress-tupelo swamps was like stepping
back into prehistoric times.
Thirty-two years later, that same fascination still clutches
me. Every time I visit the vast swamp, a tingling excitement
stirs my blood, but just beneath that exhilaration bubbles a small measure of uneasiness at the primordial unknown that
lies beyond the nearest stand of red maple and winged elm.