During her 15-year career as Ireland’s State Pathologist, Marie Cassidy became known to the Irish public as a trusted figure whose expertise helped to solve murders and clarify unexplained deaths. In over thirty years of practice, she performed thousands of post-mortems and dealt with hundreds of murders. She has witnessed the burgeoning role of forensic science and its impact on death investigation and the expectations of the general public, while embracing new technology and welcoming input of experts in other sciences. She retired at the end of 2018 to spend more time on the other passions in her life, her family and writing. Marie’s number one bestselling memoir Beyond the Tape was published in 2020. Body of Truth is her first novel.