The Coroner
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Sophie Amoss
About this listen
Summoned from her promising surgical career first to her estranged father's bedside and then to his post as medical examiner when his small town needs urgent help with a suspicious death, Emily Hartford discovers home is where the bodies are in this pitch-perfect mystery debut.
Recently engaged and deeply ensconced in her third year of surgical residency in Chicago, Emily Hartford gets a shock when she is 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 is pulled deeper into the case and closer to her father and to Nick - much to the dismay of her big-city fiance.
When a threat is made to Emily herself, she must race to catch the killer before he strikes again.
The Coroner, expertly written and sharply plotted, is perfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell and Julia Spencer Fleming.
©2018 Jennifer Graeser Dornbush (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.What listeners say about The Coroner
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- Beck
- 15-11-2021
Average
Needed more polish, lots of weird little details that made no sense and the main character is shallow and very ditzy for a doctor - who forgets their own birthday? And of course she is tall, thin and blonde, insert eye roll here!
The involvement of the senator in the scoring wasn’t explored - was it to cheat or did he want his daughter disqualified so he could keep control over her? All the main characters were quite dense in one way or another and no one could communicate properly - from the way she left town, to the dad being remarried, and Nick pining after her for 12 years (pfft). One minute Julie is dead, the next minute her little sister is being questioned at school - why was she at school the same week her sister was murdered? And this accomplished woman is ready to throw everything away by about day 3 in her old town, whilst dealing with a murder and ailing parent (who she became estranged from a bit too hastily). I just couldn’t get into this book at all, it felt like fan fic or a teenager wrote it at times. Comparing it to Kathy Reichs is an affront to her and her fans! It was a freebie, I definitely won’t be using credits to continue the series.
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- noney
- 20-12-2021
loved it
a really enjoyable listen interesting characters and plot, kept me guessing all the way. fabulous narrator
I'll definitely be buying the next in the series
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- Miss
- 23-01-2022
Great listen
Excellent story - good intrigue - listened at every chance. Now to find the next book by this author ✅
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- Anastasia Makshakova
- 18-10-2022
A great story
A great story line, very well written and performed with great attention to a young doctor’s self-reflection
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- Anonymous User
- 25-10-2022
Great author and good story
I really Loved this book. Kept me interested all the way through. I recommend it.
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- Clare McCosker
- 21-04-2023
Medical malpractice will be her future. So maybe it’s best she is a coroner.
Not a bad story but I found some of the medical practice described pretty hard to take best to skip over where there is a glaring knowledge deficit.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-05-2023
Sweet predictable romance - whodunit
A good distraction with a sweetly predictable plot. Nice concept and back-story for a Coroner.
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- Jason Hill
- 06-06-2023
Gripping
Enjoyed the story & thought the narration was excellent. Disappointed that the ending was so open-ended.
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- kateincottesloe
- 01-06-2023
No Kay Scarpetta
Full of spoonerisms. If author is a good doctor, she should probably stick to that. Strong “I do not think that word means what (s)he thinks it means” vibes throughout.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-08-2023
Really enjoyed it
Nice, light, a hint of romance.
A small town where everyone knows everyone, estranged relationships, and a murder. Can't wait to dive into the next title in the series.
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