Blood On the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

For almost a century, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years, the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals, ghastly murders, bloody gang wars, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final authority in cases of sudden, unexplained, or violent death.

Founded in 1918, the OCME has evolved over decades of technological triumphs and all-too human failure to its modern-day incarnation as the foremost forensics lab in the world, investigating an average caseload of over 15,000 suspicious deaths a year. This is the behind-the-scenes chronicle of public service and private vendettas, of blood in the streets and back-room bloodbaths, and of the criminal cases that made history and headlines.

• Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
• Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office
• Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner
• Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner
• Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
• The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
• The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes
• Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
• Unnatural Causes
• Coroner's Journal: Forensics and the Art of Stalking Death