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What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
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2023
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11 editions
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Thank you so much Elisa for your kind words! I wish death (and life) didn't have to be so graphic, but I had to keep it real.
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Wow, thank you J.! What a wonderful and insightful review. You really get it.
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Thank you so much Kristine, I am so glad you liked it. Writing about my own story was hard; so much easier to concentrate on the cases I investigated.
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“When you leave here each day, surround yourself with things of beauty. Enjoy nature and art and food and music and love. Just do it, and don’t skip a day.”
― What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
― What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
“If you think of a thing, do it. The distance of the body from the building, distance of the brain from the head, approximate height of the building—maybe they could tell us something.”
― What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
― What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
“Women are less invested in being right than men are,” he said, “so they’re more inclined to keep an open mind, to reserve judgment. Or to put it more crudely, they don’t get involved in dick-waving contests with the police.” He had a point. It wasn’t the first time he declaimed female superiority. Charles Hirsch loved women, but more than that, he appreciated them. He preferred the way they thought and spoke over the more ego-driven style of men.”
― What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
― What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
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