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The Coroner

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by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush
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Home is where the bodies are buried in this “intense, riveting mystery” full of twists, romance, and family drama—for fans of Patricia Cornwell (Library Journal).
Summoned to take up her father’s post as a medical examiner, surgeon Emily Hartford returns to her Midwestern hometown—and finds herself at the center of a murder investigation.
Recently engaged and deeply ensconced in her third year of surgical residency in Chicago, Emily Hartford gets a shock when she’s called home to Freeport, Michigan, the small town she fled a decade ago after the death of her mother. Her estranged father, the local medical examiner, has had a massive heart attack and Emily is needed urgently to help with his recovery.
Not sure what to expect, Emily races home, blowing the only stoplight at the center of town and getting pulled over by her former high school love, now Sheriff, Nick Larson. At the hospital, she finds her father in near total denial of the seriousness of his condition. He insists that the best thing Emily can do to help him is to take on the autopsy of a Senator’s teen daughter whose sudden, unexplained death has just rocked the sleepy town.
Reluctantly agreeing to help her father and Nick, Emily gets down to work, only to discover that the girl was murdered. The autopsy reminds her of her many hours in the morgue with her father when she was a young teen—a time which inspired her love of medicine. Before she knows it, she’s pulled deeper into the case and closer to her father and to Nick—much to the dismay of her big-city fiancé. When a threat is made to Emily herself, she must race to catch the killer before he strikes again.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Coroner's Daughter Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 7, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781683316244
      • File size: 3081 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781683316244
      • File size: 1878 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      June 1, 2018
      When Dr. Emily Hartford learns of her father's heart attack, she leaves her promising Chicago surgical career and new fiance, Brandon, to return home only to be pulled into a murder investigation led by her old high school sweetheart.Emily had abruptly left Freeport, Michigan, as a teenager after her mother's death. She felt that her father, Freeport's medical examiner, either couldn't or wouldn't tell her the truth behind the death. And although she had left a note for her boyfriend, Nick, who is now the sheriff in Freeport, he never found it. Now, shortly after arriving to take care of her father, Emily gets pulled into the case of Julie Dobson, a state senator's daughter. Julie was a brilliant horsewoman with a promising career until she was found thrown from her horse, dead from a head wound. Standing in for her father, Emily does Julie's autopsy, and when signs point to murder, both Nick and Emily struggle to find the truth. Meanwhile, Emily weighs her feelings for the almost too-perfect Brandon against her rekindled feelings for Nick, a quandary whose outcome the reader will never doubt. Although we are repeatedly told of Emily's many struggles, the reader is held at an emotional distance by prose that is adequate but not polished. Too, the use of "gonna," "wanna," and "gotta" may be phonetic depictions of how people speak, but its constant use in print is annoying.If Dornbush will trust her own ability to convey insights via actions instead of explanations, readers might want to find out what happens next in the obviously planned sequel.

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    • Library Journal

      Starred review from August 1, 2018

      Just as Emily Hartsford, a third-year medical resident in Chicago, accepts a marriage proposal, she learns of her estranged father's heart attack and heads home to Freeport, MI, after a 12-year absence. With her father, the county medical examiner, laid up, sheriff Nick Larson, Emily's old sweetheart, needs her help to investigate the death of a state senator's daughter. The autopsy reveals that Julie was murdered. While Emily struggles with her feelings about wedding plans and being home again, she and Nick also uncover threats and stories of teen drug use. But what led to the murder of the promising young equestrian? Authentic forensic details testify to the author's knowledge of the subject as the daughter of a medical examiner. But some readers may be upset by violence involving a horse. VERDICT Dornbush's debut is an intense, riveting mystery that combines the coziness of small-town familiarity with the sobering reality of drugs and murder. Readers of Lisa Black's books written as Elizabeth Becka will enjoy this tale.--Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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