Ryan, Annelise

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Title: WORKING STIFF
Author: Annelise Ryan (aka Beth Amos)
Publication Date: August 25, 2009
Publisher: Kensington Books
Format: Hardcover, Paperback, ebook
ISBN: 978-0758234520 (075823452X)
Price: $22.00

Can forensics be fun? You betcha! Wisconsin RN, Mattie Winston, is wryly cynical, politically incorrect, and inherently nosy, traits that suit her well when she trades in her hospital scrubs and OR table for a plastic apron and autopsy table. As a Deputy Coroner, she still gets to use her slicing and dicing skills, but now instead of saving people's lives, she is dedicated to finding out how and why they died. It's a whole new world for Mattie, one that includes a hunky homicide detective, a new hairdresser whose office just happens to be in the basement of a funeral home, and a supporting cast of quirky characters who keep things entertaining. When murder and mayhem come to town, Mattie's anatomical knowledge and no-nonsense approach help her sort out these crimes despite her knack for stumbling into trouble. Sorting out her love life, however, proves a bit more challenging.


Link to author's website: http://www.bethamos.com or www.mattiewinston.com

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Title: SCARED STIFF
Author: Annelise Ryan (aka Beth Amos)
Publication Date: August 31, 2010
Publisher: Kensington Books
Format: Hardcover, Paperback, ebook
ISBN: 978-0758234544 (0758234546)
Price: $22.00

The second book in the Mattie Winston series. When Mattie and her boss/best friend, Izzy, are called to the home of waitress and part-time model Shannon Tolliver, they find the ghoulish decorations just a bit too authentic. For among the fake blood and skeletons is the corpse of Shannon herself – and the evidence screams murder. Since the whole town knows Shannon recently had a very public argument with her estranged husband, Erik, he’s suspect #1 for tall, dark, and blissfully blue-eyed homicide detective, Steve Hurley. But Mattie believes Erik truly loved his wife and is incapable of such a brutal act. Determined to unearth the truth—and maybe spend a little quality time with Detective Hunky—Mattie puts her scalpel-sharp medical skills to work and digs a little deeper. She will have to risk everything to catch a killer who, if cornered, is capable of doing anything. And this time it’s not just Mattie’s life that’s on the line...

Link to author's website: http://www.bethamos.com or www.mattiewinston.com

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Title: FROZEN STIFF
Author: Annelise Ryan (aka Beth Amos)
Publication Date: August 30, 2011
Publisher: Kensington Books
Format: Hardcover, Paperback, ebook
ISBN: 978-0758234568 (0758234562)
Price: $22.00

The third book in the Mattie Winston series.
Death is never pretty and Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston's latest case is no exception. But this victim was certainly strikingly beautiful, at least until someone stuck that knife in her chest. Mattie knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, so the deceased must be someone from out of town. If a woman this attractive had moved to town, surely it would have hit the local gossip mill in record time. So what is this victim doing here, laid out in this desolate field?

Things only get murkier with the arrival of the usually dependable and stoic detective, Steve Hurley; one look at the victim and he turns as white as the newly fallen snow and excuses himself from the case. It turns out the victim is a top investigative reporter from Chicago and not only does Hurley know her, they dated a year and a half ago until she broke it off. While Mattie grapples with her jealousy of a gorgeous dead woman, Hurley swears her to secrecy and then tells her...that knife in the victim's chest is his!

It's a case with more twists and turns than Mattie's own crazy love life, and it will take all of her forensic skills to unravel the increasingly bizarre clues and find the killer before she herself becomes just another cold case.


Link to author's website: http://www.bethamos.com or www.mattiewinston.com