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Judy Melinek

Biography

Judy Melinek

Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell are the New York Times bestselling co-authors of WORKING STIFF: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner, and the novel FIRST CUT. Dr. Melinek studied at Harvard and UCLA, was a medical examiner in San Francisco for nine years, and today works as a forensic pathologist in Oakland and as CEO of PathologyExpert Inc. T.J. Mitchell, her husband, is a writer with an English degree from Harvard, and worked in the film industry before becoming a full-time stay-at-home dad to their children.

Judy Melinek

Books by Judy Melinek

Aftershock: A Dr. Jessie Teska Mystery
by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell - Fiction, Mystery

There’s a body crushed under a load of pipes on a San Francisco construction site, and medical examiner Dr. Jessie Teska is on call. So it’s her job to figure out who it is --- and her headache when the autopsy reveals that the death is a homicide staged as an accident. Jessie is hot on the murderer’s trail, then an earthquake sends her and her whole city reeling. When the dust clears, her case has fallen apart and an innocent man is being framed. Jessie knows she’s the only one who can prove it, and she races to piece together the truth --- before it gets buried and brings her down in the rubble.

First Cut
by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell - Fiction, Mystery

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 an elaborate plot involving drug dealers and Bitcoin brokers. 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.