

Title: First Cut
Author: Judy Melinek
Page count: 361
Published: January 7th, 2020
Publisher: Netgalley
Genre: Crime Thriller
Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 2/5

A young rookie medical examiner. A suspicious case. An underworld plot only she saw coming.
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 a constellation of deaths that point to 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.

I loved the premise of this book; I just had a hard time getting into this one. I don’t normally read mystery books, so maybe that is why I couldn’t get into the book.? I just couldn’t connect with the characters.


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