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Mattie Winston mysteries

Author:
Ryan, Annelise
 
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Star rating for Working stiff
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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.
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Star rating for Scared Stiff
Series Volume:
2.
Description:

A coroner becomes a sleuth when an innocent friend is accused of murder in this hardboiled mystery by the USA Today–bestselling author of Dead Even.

When Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston and her boss/best friend, Izzy, are called to the home of waitress and part-time model Shannon Tolliver, they find the ghoulish Halloween decorations a bit too authentic. Among the fake blood and skeletons is the corpse of Shannon

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Star rating for Frozen stiff
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
Deputy coroner Mattie Winston's latest case wreaks havoc on her love life as she investigates the murder of a beautiful investigative reporter who once dated her boyfriend detective Steven Hurley--and who was stabbed with his knife
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Star rating for Lucky Stiff
Series Volume:
4.
Description:

In this hard-boiled mystery by the USA Today–bestselling author of Dead Even, a coroner investigates a suspicious house fire.

It's Christmas Day in the sleepy town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, but instead of unwrapping presents, deputy coroner Mattie Winston is at the burnt remains of a house, where a charred body has been found. The victim is none other than Jack Allen—a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino

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Star rating for Board stiff
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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.
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Star rating for Stiff Penalty
Series Volume:
6.
Description:

Danger multiplies for a pregnant coroner investigating a math teacher's murder in this hard-boiled mystery by a USA Today–bestselling author.

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.

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Star rating for Stiff Competition
Series Volume:
7.
Description:

A coroner must find a killer out to make a point in this hard-boiled mystery by the USA Today–bestselling author of Dead Even.

Every fall, hunting season in Sorenson, Wisconsin, leads to some accidental injuries. Deputy coroner Mattie Winston just hopes the hunters don't bring any more business to her office. But somebody seems to have declared open season on land developers. One real estate developer who's recently

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Star rating for Dead in the Water
Series Volume:
8.
Description:

Overwhelmed by murder, a coroner-turned-sleuth fights to stay afloat in this hard-boiled mystery by the bestselling author of Dead Ringer.

As a single mom and deputy coroner of Sorenson, Wisconsin, Mattie Winston is used to her life being a juggling act. But now that she's moved in with Detective Steve Hurley and his teenaged daughter, and has started planning their wedding, her home life is looking more like a three-ring circus.

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Star rating for Dead calm
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The honeymoon will have to wait for newlyweds Mattie Winston and Steve Hurley . . . As deputy medical examiner and homicide detective respectively, the couple 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?...
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Star rating for Dead of winter
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Winters in Sorenson, Wisconsin, can be unforgiving. But it's murder that keeps Mattie and her family from settling into their new home . . .A new home, a new marriage, a new family. It's a lot to sort out. But before medicolegal death investigator Mattie can smooth out the unexpected chaos of her new life, duty calls. 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....
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Star rating for Dead ringer
Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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Star rating for Dead even
Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"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...An affair, a Ponzi scheme, a disputed inheritance...there are as many motives as suspects, and soon Mattie and Hurley have turned up other, possibly related deaths...It'll take all of Mattie's skill--along with a lucky break or two--to stop a killer from racking...