Her non-fiction work is crafted with a dry sense of humor and light-hearted desire for knowledge. Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Roach’s first book, explores what happens to cadavers after they have been donated to the sciences. Roach takes her readers everywhere from the infamous “body farm” at the University of Tennessee to a plastic surgery seminar. The work features insightful anecdotes from those involved in the forensic sciences and a compact history of the cadaver ‘“trade.”