First Cut: A Novel â " A Tense Forensic Pathologist Mystery Set in San Francisco (A Dr. Jessie Teska Mystery, 1)

Melinek M.D., Judy,Mitchell, T.J.

ISBN 10: 133508133X / ISBN 13: 9781335081339

Published by Hanover Square Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Cut: A Novel â " A Tense Forensic Pathologist Mystery Set in San Francisco (A Dr. Jessie Teska Mystery, 1)
• Publisher: Hanover Square Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 133508133X
• ISBN 13: 9781335081339
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A young rookie medical examiner. A suspicious case. An underworld plot only she saw coming.

For San Francisco’s newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A new job in a new city. A way to escape her own dark past. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Jessie’s superiors urge her to close the case, but as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers an elaborate plot involving drug dealers and Bitcoin brokers. Autopsy means “see for yourself,” and Jessie Teska won’t stop until she has seen it all—even if it means that the next corpse on the table could be her own.

About the Authors

JUDY MELINEK, M.D., was an assistant medical examiner in San Francisco for nine years, and today works as a forensic pathologist in Oakland and as CEO of PathologyExpert Inc. She and T.J. Mitchell met as undergraduates at Harvard, after which she studied medicine and practiced pathology at UCLA. Her training in forensics at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York is the subject of her first book, the memoir Working Stiff.


T.J. MITCHELL is a writer with an English degree from Harvard, and worked in the film industry before becoming a full-time stay-at-home dad. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner with his wife, Judy Melinek.