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Summary
Summary
A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of January 2020
"Scalpel sharp."--Kathy Reichs
A young rookie medical examiner. A suspicious case. An underworld plot only she saw coming.
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Working Stiff
For San Francisco's newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A new job in a new city. A way to escape her own dark past.
Instead she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Jessie's superiors urge her to close the case, but as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving drug dealers and Bitcoin brokers.
Drawing on her real-life experiences as a forensics expert, Judy Melinek teams up with husband T.J. Mitchell to deliver the most exhilarating mystery of the year. Autopsy means "see for yourself," and Jessie Teska won't stop until she has seen it all--even if it means that the next corpse on the table could be her own.
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Library Journal Review
A former assistant medical examiner in San Francisco, now a forensic pathologist in Oakland, Melinek here joins with husband Mitchell, her coauthor on Working Stiff, for a debut novel featuring medical examiner Dr. Jessie Teska. Jessie suspects that an overdose case is actually a drug lord's cover-up for murder and ignores warnings not to investigate as more bodies pile up. With a 100,000-copy first printing.