Annelise Ryan
1) Dead calm
Author
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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As deputy medical examiner and homicide detective respectively, newlyweds Mattie Winston and Steve Hurley are dispatched to a grisly crime scene at the Grizzly Motel, a seedy joint for illicit liaisons on the outskirts of Sorenson, Wisconsin. A man and woman are found dead next to each other in bed in what initially appears to be a grim but straightforward murder-suicide. An affair gone sour? But as the forensic evidence is gathered and autopsies...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Deputy coroner Mattie Winston knows a thing or two about dead bodies. That's why she's on the case of Derrick Ames, a high school math teacher stabbed to death with a barbecue fork straight to the heart. Sure, she's turned up some motives and a few suspects, but nothing adds up. Especially when the evidence points to Ames's teenage son. Newly pregnant Mattie can't believe it, even as her own long-estranged father may be following her. But one thing's...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a floating body with its throat slashed turns out to be the newest member of the medical examiner's staff, all while she plans her wedding to Detective Steve Hurley Wisconsin deputy coroner Mattie Winston is starting to feel that she is in way over her head.
4) Frozen stiff
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Death is never pretty, and deputy coroner Mattie Winston's latest case is no exception. But this victim certainly was strikingly beautiful--before someone stuck that knife into her chest. Mattie knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, so the deceased is definitely a stranger from out of town. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely hit the gossip mill in record time. So what was the victim...
5) Lucky stiff
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino jackpot dies in a house fire, all bets are off as deputy coroner Mattie Winston and detective Scott Hurley, convinced that he was murdered for his money, take a gamble on the wrong suspect.
6) Board stiff
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner Mattie Winston takes on the murder of Bernie Chase, the president of Twilight Nursing Home's board of directors, who was found with a mysterious substance on his body and had been suspected by some of offing the home's more expensive residents.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At the local ER, a battered and bruised teenage girl has been brought in by a mysterious man who claimed she'd fallen out of a car. The staff is suspicious, but while they attend to the teenager, the unidentified man slips out. Then the girl dies, but not before informing social worker Hildy Schneider that the man had her little sister as well. Mattie's exam reveals forensic evidence of long-term IV drug use and physical abuse, findings consistent...
8) Dead ringer
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Spring is beginning to brighten Sorenson, Wisconsin, for Mattie and Steve Hurley and their family. While their son Matthew may be in his terrible twos and Steve's daughter Emily a moody teenager, the kids bring light to their lives when their work is dark by its nature - Steve is a homicide detective and Mattie is a medicolegal death investigator, aka medical examiner. They deal in corpses. The latest corpse, a Jane Doe, was clearly an addict, but...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Business has been booming since Morgan Carter solved the case of the monster living in Lake Michigan. The Odds and Ends bookstore is thriving, of course, but Morgan is most excited by the doors that were opened for her as a cryptid hunter. Recently, there have been numerous sightings of a Bigfoot-type creature in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest area of Bayfield County, Wisconsin. After a man is found dead from a vicious throat injury in the...
10) Needled to death
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A social worker investigates after a grieving mother confides disturbing details about her son's death --
11) Dead even
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In her previous career as a nurse, Mattie Winston's job was to keep death at bay. Now, as a medicolegal investigator, she's required to study death intimately - to figure out causes and timing, and help deduce whether it was natural or suspicious. In the case of Montgomery "Monty" Dixon, a well-to-do realtor, there can be little doubt: broken pool cues do not embed themselves. Monty's body is found in the game room of his lavish house, the walls...
13) Working stiff
Author
Series
Mattie Winston mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A first installment in a new series finds wisecracking nurse-turned-coroner Mattie Winston leaving her unfaithful husband only to find herself implicated in the murder of his girlfriend, a situation for which she struggles to clear her name before falling for a handsome detective.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan. Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she's not tending the store, she's hunting cryptids-creatures whose existence is rumored but never proven to be real....