The Coroner - Read

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Perhaps she had been too swift to imagine a conspiracy, too easily swept up in the emotion of a teenagers shocking death. Snapping her briefcase shut, she made a decision to go about her investigation in as detached & professional a manner as she could. She was the coroner, an impartial, clear-headed, determined investigator of the truth… When lawyer Jenny Cooper is appointer Severn Vale District Coroner, she’s hoping for a quiet life & space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected flies hiding dark secrets & a trail of buried evidence. Could the tragic death in custody of a young boy be linked to the apparent suicide of a teenage prostitute & the fate of Marshall himself? Jenny’s curiosity is aroused. Why was Marshall behaving so strangely before he died? What injustice was he planning to uncover? & what caused his abrupt change of heart? In the face of powerful & sinister forces determined to keep both the truth hidden & the troublesome coroner in check, Jenny embarks on a lonely & dangerous one-woman crusade for justice which threatens not only her career but also her sanity.