Last One Alive

The Coroner's Daughter Mysteries, Book 3

By: Jennifer Graeser Dornbush

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation—and into the path of a killer.

Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper. She doesn’t know the details of the event but remembers it as one of the few cases her deceased father never solved.

On her thirtieth birthday, Solange opens a long-forgotten safe-deposit box and is entirely baffled by what she finds. Inside are not only painful reminders of a once-happy youth but almost four million dollars—enough to pursue and finally solve the mystery of who brutally murdered her family. It’s been over ten years, and Solange has built a new life in Detroit with her husband, Joseph. But there are certain disturbing questions about her past that she is determined to answer. So she reaches out to the only one who might know something about her family’s deaths and their possibly erroneous death certificates—Dr. Hartford, the daughter of Freeport’s former medical examiner.

Finding it impossible to believe that her scrupulous father made a mistake, Emily joins Solange’s pursuit of the truth, and as subzero temperatures blanket snow-covered Michigan, the two women pursue justice in two very different ways. But lurking nearby in the frigid cold is a crafty, unrepentant killer, determined to finish what he started long ago.

©2023 Jennifer Dornbush (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

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Love the series

I love this series! But please don’t kill off nick! I feel so bad for Brandon and all the back and forth but I hope he understands and there can be some sort of closure between them. But she needs to be with nick. What about that phone call in the beginning she got! Was it nick trying to reach out?

I really hope this series continues

I'm in love with this series. the characters are great! The theme is one of my favorites, and the author is wonderful at drawing you in. ❤️

Love this series

I love this series, but there some of these characters frustrated me so much! Can’t wait till the next book.

A+ performance of narrator and love the author

I love the writing some of the authors and also the performance of the narrator A+

Excellent narrator

The narrator made the story flow seamlessly. I am enjoying this series and the characters. I am starting the next book tomorrow.