Coroner: investigating sudden death. Derek Hand & Janet Fife-Yeomens. 2004.

The Coroner offers a fascinating insight into the daily work of Derrick Hand, who investigated the death of Michael Hutchence, led the inquiry into the Thredbo disaster, sent the killers of Anita Cobby to trial and presided over the court hearings in the wake of the police shooting of French photographer Roni Levi at Bondi.

Derrick Hand was NSW State Coroner for many years. In The Coroner we travel with him behind the scenes of his investigations and discover how he pieces together the puzzles thrown up by suspicious deaths and helps to bring some of Australia’s most notorious murderers to justice.