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Butcher chronicles her career path and her journey to sobriety in unflinching detail while her voice remains deliberate and measured occasionally slipping into what sounds like a halfsmirk when cracking a jokeShe has a way with words telling stories that are at turns hilarious thoughtprovoking and as might be expected disturbingThis is a story of trauma yes but its also a glimpse into the dark side of a city that most never see up close The New York Times Book Review

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A remarkably candid and sensitive The Wall Street Journal memoir of more than twenty years of deathscene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline a job at the Medical Examiners Office in New York City The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan she was the first to last more than three months The work was gritty demanding morbid and sometimes dangerousand she loved it

Butcher yes thats her real name and she has heard all the jokes spent day in and day out investigating double homicides gruesome suicides and most heartbreaking of all underage rape victims who had also been murdered In What the Dead Know she writes with the kind of New York attitude and bravado you might expect from decades in the field investigating more than 5500 death scenes 680 of which were homicides In the opening chapter she describes how just from sheer luck of having her arm in a cast she avoided a boobytrapped suicide Later in her career she describes working the nations largest mass murder the attack on 9/11 where she and her colleagues initially relied on family members descriptions to help distinguish among the 21900 body parts of the victims

This is the breathtakingly honest compassionate and raw Patricia Cornwell completely unputdownable Adriana Trigiani New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone reallife story of a woman who in dealing with death every day learned surprising lessons about lifeand how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself Fans of Kathy Reichs Patricia Cornwell and true crime wont be able to put this down