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What the dead know : learning about life as a New York City death investigator

What the dead know : learning about life as a New York City death investigator

Book 2024

"Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding, morbid, and sometimes dangerous-and she loved it. Butcher (yes, that's her real name, and she has heard all the jokes) spent day in and...