The Chosen Dead (Coroner Jenny Cooper series) - Tapa dura

"The coroner gallops to the rescue again . . . I enjoy this series greatly, and the fifth book is well up to the standard of its predecessors" --Literary Review

"M R Hall's previous four novels are very good. This one is even better . . . This exciting story raises eternal and unanswerable questions and teaches the eternal and unwelcome truth . . . the crusading coroner, neither ruthless nor calculating, comes out on top in the end" --Literary Review

"Hall is one of the more ambitious of crime writers, giving his books texture" --The Tuesday Book in The Independent

"A fast-paced tale with factual accuracy. This is the latest adventure for Bristol based coroner Jenny Cooper and it has a strong local setting, which Bristolians may enjoy." --The Bristol Magazine

"Gritty and compelling, The Flight, is breathless and thoroughly enjoyable."
--Daily Express

Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates . . . An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge, she little suspects that it has any connection with the sudden death of a friend's thirteen year old daughter from a deadly strain of meningitis. But as Jenny pieces together the dead man's last days, she's drawn into a mystery whose dark ripples stretch across continents and back through decades. In an investigation which will take her into the sinister realms of unbridled human ambition and corrupt scientific endeavour, Jenny is soon forced to risk the love and lives of those closest to her, as a deadly race to uncover the truth begins . . .