John Bateson. (2017). The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death. Unabridged HighBridge.

John Bateson. 2017. The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death. HighBridge.

John Bateson, The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death. HighBridge, 2017.

John Bateson. The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death. Unabridged HighBridge, 2017.

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Marin County, California is a study in contradictions. Its natural beauty attracts thousands of visitors every year, yet the county also is home to San Quentin Prison, one of the oldest and largest penitentiaries in the country. Marin ranks in the top one percent of counties nationwide in terms of affluence and overall health, yet it is far above the norm in drug overdoses and alcoholism, and comprises a large percentage of suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge. Ken Holmes worked in the Marin County Coroner's Office for thirty-six years, starting as a death investigator and ending as the three-term, elected coroner. As he grew into the job-which is different from what is depicted on television-Holmes learned a variety of skills, from finding hidden clues at death scenes, interviewing witnesses effectively, managing bystanders and reporters, preparing testimony for court to notifying families of a death with sensitivity and compassion. He also learned about different kinds of firearms, all types of drugs-prescription and illegal-and about certain unexpected and potentially fatal phenomena such as autoeroticism.

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     October 2, 2017
     Macabre tales from a county coroner color Bateson’s latest. Bateson met Ken Holmes in 2010 while writing The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge. At that time, Holmes was nearing the end of his third and final term as coroner for Marin County, Calif. His 36 years on the death beat in one of the most affluent counties in the United States supply the grim stranger-than-fiction stories in this book. He recalls the teenager who convinced her boyfriend to help kill her parents and burn their bodies in a remote campsite cistern, and a 42-year-old woman who jumped to her death from the Golden Gate Bridge and washed up on shore with a gunshot wound to the head. Holmes investigated the deaths of famous porn kings and the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, and he was the man San Quentin State Prison officials called when inmates died. Bateson, who opted not to interview any of Holmes’s colleagues for the book, recounts these macabre tales with a novelist’s flair, punctuated by Holmes’s insight. Additionally, Bateson reveals the art and science of a forensic investigation, from the initial call to the autopsy room. Bateson’s retellings of Holmes’s stories are entertaining and provocative.

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Marin County, California is a study in contradictions. Its natural beauty attracts thousands of visitors every year, yet the county also is home to San Quentin Prison, one of the oldest and largest penitentiaries in the country. Marin ranks in the top one percent of counties nationwide in terms of affluence and overall health, yet it is far above the norm in drug overdoses and alcoholism, and comprises a large percentage of suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge. Ken Holmes worked in the Marin County Coroner's Office for thirty-six years, starting as a death investigator and ending as the three-term, elected coroner. As he grew into the job-which is different from what is depicted on television-Holmes learned a variety of skills, from finding hidden clues at death scenes, interviewing witnesses effectively, managing bystanders and reporters, preparing testimony for court to notifying families of a death with sensitivity and compassion. He also learned about different kinds of...

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