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First Cut by Judy Melinek

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Also by Judy Melinek:

Aftershock, January 2022
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Aftershock, February 2021
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Aftershock, January 2021
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First Cut, January 2020
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Working Stiff, August 2014
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FIRST CUT
By: Judy Melinek

Hanover Square Press
January 2020
On Sale: January 7, 2020
368 pages
ISBN: 1335008306
EAN: 9781335008305
Kindle: B07P1B4CJL
Hardcover / e-Book
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Suspense | Mystery Woman Sleuth | Thriller Medical

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

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Working Stiff

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 a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving drug dealers and Bitcoin brokers.

Drawing on her real-life experiences as a forensics expert, Judy Melinek teams up with husband T.J. Mitchell to deliver the most exhilarating mystery of the year. 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.