That is one adorable coroner. A few years ago we kept finding dead voles, like one a day. We aren’t sure if it was poison or a mean cat. But we had to research if they were voles or moles because we didn’t know.
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Ambrose followed Isolde out to the carefully tended yard.
He took a deep breath of fresh air. “Whatcha got?” he asked, arching over the coroner.
“Basically an entire body’s worth of blood. But no body. And the blood stops here. It’s old, too. At least a couple days. I’m stumped,” said Dr. Linza Brauer. As head coroner, she was rarely stumped and was a little delighted by this puzzle. “There’s too much trace from all the people coming and going. Apparently, Ela liked to have neighbors over for muffins at least once a week.”