What Is a Coroner's Inquest?

In australia and in a lot of countries, i don't think anywhere in the united states, but there is a coroner's inquest that can be held whenever there is a death calls for some investigation. The closest thing i can compare it to is a grand jury, where the outcome is some determination of whether the death is suspicious, instead of an indictment. In any event, so what the coroner is looking at is there a suspicious death here? Isthe reason to think that a crime has been committed? And the coroner has many of the same powers as a grand jury. He or she can call witnesses, interrogate them and indeed force them to testify, even if that testimony