No Mardi Gras for the Dead — D.J. Donaldson

NO BED OF ROSES...
Criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn has had experience with skeletons in the closet -- but not in her own backyard. The discovery of a body's remains leads her boss, New Orleans chief medical examiner Andy Broussard, to some interesting facts: female, twenty-five, twenty years dead, a prostitute...and brutally murdered.

Two more violent deaths soon follow: an aquarium shark consumes the limbs of one individual; someone else takes a messy plunge at one of the city's classiest hotels. The trail leads back two decades to a night of violent passion in the French Quarter among a group of medical students...and to a present-day killer with more than just secrets buried in his own backyard.