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This is a very interesting book. It relates stories from the professional life of Ken Holmes, who was the county coroner in Marin County. Several high profiles cases are related, including the Mitchell Brothers and the Children of Thunder murders. Not so much about forensics as about how humans deal with death and loss. I give it a 4 out of 5 rating. Read it if true crime is one of your addictions.

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This is one wonderful read about this lesser known profession - coroner. Here, we get a closer look into the professional and personal life of Ken Holmes - a coroner in Marin County, California for almost four decades. If you enjoy Mary Roach's books, you will definitely enjoy this too! It is one morbidly fascinating unputdownable book!

Rating: 5🌟

For my full review please visit https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2748011245

Interesting series of anecdotes rather than any sort of coherent account of training or things learnt on the job

An eighteen-year-old female driver named Drusilla Minor

Excerpt From: "The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death" by John Bateson. Scribd.

Giving her a name like that, how could her parents expect things to turn out well?

California roll for a book set in California

#lunchandabook

Interesting! Makes me want to read more Coroner books.

My reading buddy. She has to be VERY close to me, which makes reading tough.

That was fun! Meanwhile my TBR seems to have exploded 🤪 what next?!

I took a few days off work this week and am feeling better after going home to see my family. Thank you all for your kindness and supportive words.

Trying to plan experiments so I can finish this STUPID PhD....but that book is calling......

It took me a bit too long to read this because of school and other stuff... 😃 but it was good and I was so proud of myself for understanding the medical and Latin terms (even though they were explained) 😁 It was interesting to peek into the functioning of a coroner's office, and sometimes my jaws dropped reading about unbelievable death circumstances or the incomprehensible cruelty of some murderers.

What do you guys think? 😃

"The machismo that believes, 'If I can't have you, no one can,' is at the root of many female murders. In my entire professional career, I cannot recall a single instance where a woman took a man's life under the same premise."
#gowomen

Tells the intriguing experiences of Ken Holmes, former coroner of Marin County in California. This book tells of murders, suicides, accidental death, and natural deaths.

Bateson is a masterful storyteller, making for captivating reading. Humour is, by necessity, threaded through the narrative. Mirth, bordering on gallows betimes, helps defuse the wiry coils of tension that confronting death winds in the body and mind.

Let's see something medical 🏥💉💊🔪

This was like binge-watching CSI, but in a book. The stories are fascinating, told well, and highly detailed. But about halfway through I started to feel deeply depressed. Death isn't fun, folks, no matter how it happens. The coroner in this bio, Ken Holmes, obviously cares about his work and the people he meets. Still, the book has little respite from death.

Full review at www.TheBibliophage.com. Thanks to NetGalley and Scribner for the ARC.

#TBRtemptation post 4! Ken Holmes worked as Marin County, California's coroner for 4 decades, from serial killers to Golden Gate suicides. It's nothing close to tv portrayals. While beautiful & very affluent, it has San Quentin and higher than normal rates of substance abuse. You'll learn the variety of skills he developed and what he became knowledgeable in--firearms, drugs, unique means of death. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

😂TV coroners vs real life

And now some true crime.

Started this one today. Another for my #TBRBingo card. So far it's pretty interesting.

Overall somewhat interesting, but the subject of the book makes a lot of sexist comments and a handful of racist comments as well. It began to drag on after a bit and felt voyeuristic, using the real names of the deceased and revealing intimate information about them and their families. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hopefully this is a typo 😂

Did the author say "hmm, do you think I can find the most sexist, fat-shamey, racist thing to include in this book?" and then proceed to do it?? This is horrifying and an unnecessary inclusion.

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