Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

Judy Melinek, MD · T. J. Mitchell

Aug 2014 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Tanya Eby

About this audiobook

Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation-performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving relatives. Working Stiff chronicles Judy's two years of training, taking listeners behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple. Lively, action-packed, and loaded with mordant wit, Working Stiff offers a firsthand account of daily life in one of America's most arduous professions. The body never lies-and through the murders, accidents, and suicides that land on her table, Dr. Melinek lays bare the truth behind the glamorized depictions of autopsy work to reveal the secret story of the real morgue.

Ratings and reviews

A very well put together, great book.

About the author

Judy Melinek, MD, is a forensic pathologist and an associate clinical professor at UCSF Medical Center. She lives in San Francisco with her family. She earned her college degree from Harvard and received her medical degree and pathology residency training at UCLA.

T. J. Mitchell graduated with an English degree from Harvard and worked in the film industry before becoming a full-time stay-at-home dad in 2000.

Tanya Eby has been a voice-over artist for over a decade. She is an Audie-nominated and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. Besides narrating, Tanya spends her time teaching creative writing classes at the collegiate level, blogging, and working on her own novels.