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Working Stiff

Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

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Written by: Judy Melinek MD, T. J. Mitchell
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation-performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving relatives. Working Stiff chronicles Judy's two years of training, taking listeners behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple. Lively, action-packed, and loaded with mordant wit, Working Stiff offers a firsthand account of daily life in one of America's most arduous professions. The body never lies - and through the murders, accidents, and suicides that land on her table, Dr. Melinek lays bare the truth behind the glamorized depictions of autopsy work to reveal the secret story of the real morgue.

©2014 Dr. Judy Melinek and Thomas J. Mitchell (P)2014 Tantor Medical Professionals & Academics Science & Technology New York Forensics
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What the critics say

"Far from the magic we see on TV, Working Stiff describes forensic pathology in the real world. The book is a compelling and absorbing read." ---Kathy Reichs, author of the Temperance Brennan 'Bones' series
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This was an Incredibly fascinating story. I truly didn’t want it to end. Narration was wonderful.

Wish it had never ended

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I don't agree that the narrator wasn't appropriate. She worked fine for me with the only complaint being that all males sounded alike.

Story was great and I hope there is a follow up.

Well done, and easy to listen to

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This was an interesting, engaging and well written book that kept my interest from start to finish. The narrator did a fabulous job also, and was very easy to listen to. I absolutely recommend this to anyone (so long as you haven't got too weak a stomach!)

wow

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laughed cried cringed and stopped everything I was doing to listen intently everything you would want in this kind of story

you won't de disappointed

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