"The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases--hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex--that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and their toddler Daniel holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into...

"Taking readers inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the author, who spent ten years with the Maryland OCME, explores the year-by-year story of a pioneer in the field of forensic medicine that is now chronically in crisis."--

Discusses what medical examiners do.

America's most controversial medical examiner explores the unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, William Holden, Natalie Wood, John Belushi, and many of his other important cases Now, for the first time, Dr. Noguchi recounts his colorful and stormy career, explains his innovative techniques, and reveals the full story behind his most fascinating investigations. In Coroner, Dr....

"Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman has finally found a place to belong. As the medical examiner for the San Francisco Police Department, working alongside homicide detective Hal Harris, she uncovers the tales the dead cant tell about their final moments. It is a job that gives her purposeand a safe haven from her former life at the hands of an abusive husband. Although its been seven years since she escaped that ordeal, she still checks over her shoulder...