Stiff Penalty
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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. 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 certain, she'd better start figuring things out fast, or a deadly perpetrator could be subtracting two more victims from the population of Sorenson, Wisconsin . . .
Praise for Annelise Ryan and her Mattie Winston series
"Ryan shows growing skill at mixing humor with CSI-style crime."—Publishers Weekly
"The forensic details will interest Patricia Cornwell readers . . .while the often slapstick humor and the blossoming romance between Mattie and Hurley will draw Evanovich fans."—Booklist
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Annelise Ryan. (2015). Stiff Penalty. Kensington Books.
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Praise for Annelise Ryan and her Mattie Winston series
"Ryan shows growing skill at mixing humor with CSI-style crime."—Publishers Weekly
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January 15, 2015
Pregnancy hormones and anonymous calls do little to mellow Assistant Medical Examiner Mattie Winston (Scared Stiff, 2010, etc.).Like Alexander Portnoy, Mattie reveals her story in the course of a visit to her therapist. But unlike Roth's hero, she has few neuroses; Mattie's as comfortable in her skin as she is probing beneath her patients'. She was first sent to psychiatrist Maggie Baldwin after she broke her job's nonfraternization rule with Detective Steve Hurley, and now she's back because her persistent flouting of that rule has left a bun in her ample oven. Over the course of their marathon session, Mattie reveals to Dr. Maggie her ambivalence about marrying Hurley (she's afraid he's proposed out of duty rather than love), her love-hate relationship with the maternity clothes supplied by fashionista Priscilla McDaniel, owner of The Mother Hood boutique, and her concerns that a stalker, who's been seen peeping in her window and who may be responsible for a series of hang-up calls, may actually be her father. She also mentions that she's been cleared of official blame for killing Roscoe Schneider, a small-time thug she ran over in her driveway, and that she's solved the murder of Derrick Ames, a high school teacher stabbed in his home with a barbecue fork. In the end, her pregnancy comes to its inevitable conclusion. Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes? Ryan's climbed on board the latest version of the will-she/won't-she mystery romance: the case of the knocked-up gumshoe. At 400-plus pages, Mattie's latest might take you through an entire labor and delivery.COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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