The Chosen Dead (Coroner Jenny Cooper Series) - Hardcover

M. R. Hall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230752039 ISBN 13: 9780230752030

Publisher: Mantle, 2013

Synopsis

The unputdownable new Coroner Jenny Cooper novel from the author of The Coroner and The Flight

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Review:

"The coroner gallops to the rescue again . . . I enjoy this series greatly, and the fifth book is well up to the standard of its predecessors" --Literary Review

"M R Hall's previous four novels are very good. This one is even better . . . This exciting story raises eternal and unanswerable questions and teaches the eternal and unwelcome truth . . . the crusading coroner, neither ruthless nor calculating, comes out on top in the end" --Literary Review

"Hall is one of the more ambitious of crime writers, giving his books texture" --The Tuesday Book in The Independent

"A fast-paced tale with factual accuracy. This is the latest adventure for Bristol based coroner Jenny Cooper and it has a strong local setting, which Bristolians may enjoy." --The Bristol Magazine

"Gritty and compelling, The Flight, is breathless and thoroughly enjoyable."
--Daily Express

From the Back Cover:

Hardened as she had become to violent tragedy during six years as coroner, there were still cases that hit her like a fist in the heart. This was already one of them . . .

Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper is called to the scene of a dreadful tragedy: in the village of Blackstone Ley, a house has burned to the ground with three members of a family inside.

Though evidence of foul play is quickly uncovered, it isn't long before the police investigation is drawn to a close. It seems certain that the fire was started by one of the victims, Ed Morgan, in a fit of jealous rage.

But as Jenny prepares the inquest, she finds herself troubled by the official version of events. What could have provoked Ed's murderous rampage? How might the other, guarded inhabitants of the village have been involved? And what could the connection be with the mysterious abduction of a little girl ten years ago?

Praise for the Coroner Jenny Cooper series

'Hall's Gold Dagger-nominated books, quite simply, get better each time' Independent on Sunday

'Hall shows with aplomb that a coroner is just as able to become a detective as the forensic pathologists of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs' Sunday Times

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Coroner Jenny Cooper: the last word in crime

About this edition

• Publisher: Mantle
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0230752039
• ISBN 13: 9780230752030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320