Mattie Winston Mystery | Bloomingdale Public Library

1) Scared stiff

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Volume

1

Earliest Publication Date

2010

Description

Click to view

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

...

2) Working stiff

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Volume

2

Earliest Publication Date

2009

Description

Click to view

"Former nurse turned deputy coroner Mattie Winston has gone from working on live patients to cutting open corpses. But she has no idea that trading in her nurse's cap for a deputy coroner's badge will take her closer to her own death than she'd ever imagined. Mattie Winston's decision to change careers had nothing to do with a mid-life crisis or desire to suddenly spend a lot of time with a bunch of corpses. But catching her surgeon husband David...

3) Dead calm

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Volume

9

Earliest Publication Date

2018

Description

Click to view

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?...

4) Dead of winter

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Volume

10

Earliest Publication Date

2019

Description

Click to view

"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....

5) Dead ringer

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Volume

11

Earliest Publication Date

2020

Description

Click to view

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 drugs...

6) Dead even

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Volume

12

Earliest Publication Date

2021

Description

Click to view

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 adorned...

7) Board stiff

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Earliest Publication Date

2013

Description

Click to view

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.

8) Dead in the water

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Earliest Publication Date

2017

Description

Click to view

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.

9) Frozen stiff

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Earliest Publication Date

2011

Description

Click to view

In this hard-boiled mystery by the USA Today–bestselling author of Dead Ringer, a coroner's new case complicates her love life.

Deputy coroner Mattie Winston knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin—except the latest body discovered in a desolate field. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely hit the gossip mill in record time. So who was the murdered

...

10) Lucky stiff

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Earliest Publication Date

2012

Description

Click to view

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.

11) Stiff competition

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Earliest Publication Date

2016

Description

Click to view

Deputy coroner Mattie Winston investigates a real estate developer's murder while hunting for Detective Hurley's missing teenage daughter.

12) Stiff penalty

Author

Ryan, Annelise

Earliest Publication Date

2015

Description

Click to view

"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...