title: Melancholy Madness: A Coroner's Casebook
author: Michelle McGoff-McCann
description: <i>The stories that appear are painful, detailed, gruesome and sad and deserve to be remembered; for those who have suffered in these pages were the silent martyrs that created the need for change in our contemporary society. These are all true stories of death, and here for the first time these forgotten souls, many buried in unmarked graves around the country, are remembered.</i>
zlib_text: **Also by Steve Mosby**
  
  
  _The Third Person_
  
  
  _The Cutting Crew_
  
  
  _The 50/50 Killer_
  
  
  _Cry For Help_
  
  
  _Still Bleeding_
  
  
  _Black Flowers_
  
  
  _Dark Room_
  
  
  _The Nightmare Place_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Groves
  
  
  A little boy and his Bear
  
  
  By the end of the day, they’d attached a name to the man they’d found in the
  burned house.
  
  
  The property had been rented to an Edward Leland a month or so previously. He
  had a file – minor drugs offences mostly – and the last address they had for
  him was one he’d shared with his partner, Angela Morris. Former partner,
  presumably. The coroner had sent through a cursory note – a question mark –
  about the cuts Groves had seen in the body’s cheekbones, but pending the
  results of an overnight post-mortem, that was that. The end of Edward Leland,
  and the end of their involvement.
  
  
  After work, Groves went to pick up Caroline.
  
  
  His ex-wife didn’t live in the most salubrious area of the city: most of it
  was rows of red-brick terraced houses running down a steep hill. As h