Meet a Southern Death Investigator: Joseph Scott Morgan, author of Blood Beneath My Feet

Avid Bookshop is pleased to announce an author visit and book signing with Joseph Scott Morgan, author of Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator, on July 26, 2012, Thursday, at 6:30 pm.

Have you ever been locked in a cooler with piles of decomposing humans for so long that you had to shave all the hair off your body in order to get rid of the smell? Joseph Scott Morgan did. Have you ever lit a Marlboro from the ignited gas of a bloated dead man's belly? Joseph Scott Morgan has. Have you ever wept over a dead dog while not giving a darn about the dead owner laying next him? Morgan did. Were you named after a murder victim? Joseph Scott Morgan was.

This isn't Hollywood fantasy—Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator is the true story of a boy born into the deprivations of a white trash trailer park who as an adult gets further involved in the desperate backdoor sagas of the New South. No hot blondes here, just maggots, grief, and the truth about forensics and death investigation.

JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN was the Senior Investigator for the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office in Atlanta, Georgia for fourteen years, managing a staff of 11 medicolegal death investigators while maintaining a personal caseload of 200-300 deaths per year.

Prior to his tenure at FCMEO, Joseph was a Forensic Investigator with the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office in New Orleans, LA for six years. In addition to his death investigative duties, Morgan served as an autopsy assistant, conducting more than 7000 autopsies over his two decades in two of the south's most beautiful and violent cities.

Praise:

"A new story teller rises in the southern gothic style. At times harsh and abrasive, at others poignant and moving, Morgan has the capacity to aggravate and humble you within the same account. In chapter after chapter, he details the impact of death on the loved ones left behind and on those who must investigate the tragedies. His powerful memoir attests to the deep, dark waters through which death investigators often navigate."

MARY H. MANHEIM
Forensic Anthropologist and Director,
LSU FACES Laboratory
Author, "The Bone Lady" and "Trail of Bones"