The Chosen Dead

The is the fifth gripping installment in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Dagger-nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series. Soon to be a CBC Television Original Drama, Coroner, starring Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, and Ehren Kassam.An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy?When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge, she little suspects that it's connected to the sudden death of a friend's thirteen year-old daughter from a deadly strain of meningitis. But as Jenny pieces together the dead man's last days, she's drawn into a mystery whose dark ripples stretch across continents and back through decades.In an investigation which will take her into the sinister realms of unbridled human ambition and corrupt scientific endeavour, Jenny is soon forced to risk the love and lives of those closest to her, as she races to uncover the truth.