The Coroner (Jenny Cooper #1 - M.R. Hall

Written by M.R. Hall
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This is first book about Jenny Cooper a newly appointed Coroner in Bristol, SW England. It introduces us to a struggling 42 woman who has endured a recent marriage break-up, with her teenage son choosing to stay with his Dad, a new remote home and a serious drug addiction following a nervous breakdown. Having lied on her application about her current medical issues she throws herself into her new job.
Unfortunately, she can hardly manage with all the demands on her and when a couple of cases appear to reveal some sort of conspiracy where people individually or collectively seek to bury postmortum findings and suppress detailed investigation and formal inquests she quickly runs out of allies and wonders who she can trust. Indeed it seems that her tendency to self destruct means her best intentions will end in failure even though we understand she has right on her side.

In this novel the plot is very well thought out and centres on the death of two young people who appear to have died by their own hands. Jenny feels the questions of what led up to their suicides need to be ask and when no-one else appears to want those answers or find possible cause she gets drawn into a deep conspiracy.