Remnants of the First · File 004
Dr. Evelyn Hart
Chief Medical Examiner
“Not if I did it correctly.”
- Age
- Early to mid 50s
- Role
- Chief Medical Examiner
- Location
- The medical examiner’s office
- Education
- M.D. (pathology), forensic specialization
- Specialty
- Forensic pathology, death investigation, toxicology, evidence analysis, and medicolegal ethics
She won’t guess past the evidence, so don’t ask her to
Profile
Evelyn has been the chief medical examiner long enough that detectives straighten up a little when she walks into a room. She’s precise and dry as hell and a lot kinder than people expect, and she will not guess past the evidence, no matter who’s asking or how badly they need an answer. When she wants a read on a body from someone the police haven’t already filled in, Marielle is the one she calls.
She’s also kept one case from fourteen months ago that never sat right with her.
Associated Personnel
Chief Cal Eton
They’ve worked side by side for years and bicker like an old married couple who aren’t married. He calls her Evie. She has opinions about that.
Dr. Marielle Baptiste
The one consultant she trusts in her autopsy suite without being told what to think first.
Remnants of the First · Case file
Hart, Evelyn
Chief medical examiner
Confidential
The dead can’t
speak anymore,
so she does it
for them.
The body remembers what people try to forget.
Evidence log File 004
| No. | Item | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Reading glasses | One pair missing |
| 02 | Good pens, real notebooks | In use |
| 03 | Case file, fourteen months old | Kept |
Logged and sealed.
Personality
- Brilliant and analytical, and happiest when the answer is right in front of her
- Calm when everyone else in the room is falling apart
- Her humor is so dry you might miss it completely
- Feels things deeply and shows almost none of it
- Only cares about what’s true, not what’s convenient
- Perfectly comfortable sitting in silence
- Intimidating without trying, which she secretly finds a little funny
- Never underestimates people, or what they’re capable of
Physical Description
- Height
- 5′9″
- Eyes
- Steel grey
- Hair
- A brown shoulder-length bob with one silver streak at her temple, usually pinned back at work
- Build
- Tall, lean and strong
- Appearance
- More nerdy than glamorous, and elegant without even trying
Noted details
- 01Steel grey, and they miss nothing
- 02A smile means you did well
- 03The bones always tell the story
“I have considered embalming him.”Evelyn