Dr Daniel Harrow is a senior medical examiner at the Queensland Institute of Forensic Medicine (QIFM).
Harrow is smart. Harrow is impatient. He is a dedicated scientist and a maverick rule breaker. Harrow is a guy we just want to be around. Smart, witty, street savvy, just a little dad-jokey. He wears his casual clothes well, treats waiters nicely, and is attracted to smart women. Harrow knows good whiskey, good blues, and knows where to find the best and cheapest yakitori in the city. He enjoys playing his classic Crestwood Epiphone guitar, one of many antique, quirky (and sometimes ancient) artefacts that adorn his office and his much-loved home the Bettie, a sloop moored in the city heart of the Brisbane River.
Harrow is confident and curious. He is restless. He doesn't just want to know what happened; he wants to know why. His curiosity, and his drive to find the simple truth amid the complexity, are insatiable.
But Harrow's drive to unearth the truth has cost him his family. His wife divorced him and his daughter is practically estranged from him, although he'd give the world for it to be otherwise. Harrow knows the living are more important than the dead. But the truth about death is important to those left behind, too. And for better or worse, he is damned good at getting the dead to reveal the truth. It's what he does, and it's what we love watching him do.
