The Coroner

From bestselling author Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, The Coroner is the first book in her immensely popular mystery series.

Summoned from her promising surgical career, first to her estranged father’s bedside and then to his post as medical examiner in small town Michigan, Emily Hartford discovers home is where the bodies.

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, Emily gets to work, only to discover that the girl was murdered. 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 fiancé.

When a threat is made against Emily directly, the race is on to catch the killer—before he strikes again.