Signs of Death

She built her career on finding the truth in the dead. Now she’s being asked to find it for the living — and the truth might get them both killed.
Dr. Giselle Norwood is a forensic pathologist who has made peace with the quiet certainties of the morgue. A body doesn’t lie. Cause of death doesn’t negotiate. It’s the living she doesn’t trust.

So when a fast-talking personal injury attorney named Bobby Kaminski slides into the chair across from her at her favorite restaurant — uninvited, unannounced, and barely believable — she should send him away. Instead, she listens.

Kaminski is defending Dennis Bauer: a foul-mouthed, deeply unlikable man accused of poisoning his wife with mercury. The evidence is overwhelming. The press has already convicted him. And the man prosecuting the case — Dane County DA Mitch Kelly — is gunning for the attorney general’s office and won’t let a small thing like the truth get in his way.

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