Coroner’s Daughter Mystery Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Coroner | 2018 | Buy |
| Secret Remains | 2020 | Buy |
| Last One Alive | 2023 | Buy |
| Frozen Lives | 2024 | Buy |
| What Darkness Does | 2025 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Hole in the Woods | 2020 | Buy |
Jennifer Graeser Dornbush grew up as the daughter of a medical examiner in rural Michigan, and that background runs through nearly everything she writes. Her Coroner’s Daughter Mystery series, which began with The Coroner in 2018, follows a protagonist who returns to her small hometown and gets pulled into forensic investigations alongside her father. The series has grown to five books, with What Darkness Does arriving in 2025.
Outside the series, Dornbush published the standalone thriller Hole in the Woods in 2020. She also works as a screenwriter and has spoken publicly about how growing up around death investigations shaped both her worldview and her fiction. Her writing is grounded in the procedural realities of small-town forensics rather than the flashy lab work of big-city crime shows.