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Awarded the 2025 Killer Nashville Claymore Prize for best unpublished nonfiction book, Madam Coroner is an eye-opening memoir about one coroner’s life and many deaths over a four-year period bookended by the opioid epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Elected the first woman coroner in her county’s 219-year history, Dr. Christina VandePol faces a suburban underworld of drug deaths, murder-suicides, unclaimed remains, and overflowing morgues. But it’s the living, not the dead, who pose the biggest obstacle to her fight for transparency and justice.