Annelise Ryan

A Helping Hands Mystery

1 - Needled to Death (Aug-2019)
2 - Night Shift (Aug-2020)

A Mattie Winston Mystery

1 - Working Stiff (Sep-2009)
2 - Scared Stiff (Sep-2010)
3 - Frozen Stiff (Sep-2011)
4 - Lucky Stiff (Mar-2013)
5 - Board Stiff (Mar-2014)
6 - Stiff Penalty (Mar-2015)
7 - Stiff Competition (Jan-2016)
8 - Dead in the Water (Mar-2017)
9 - Dead Calm (Feb-2018)
10 - Dead of Winter (Feb-2019)
11 - Dead Ringer (Mar-2020)
12 - Dead Even (Apr-2021)

A Monster Hunter Mystery

1 - A Death in Door County (Sep-2022)
2 - Death in the Dark Woods (Dec-2023)

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  Working Stiff
  

  • Sep-2009
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 1
  

  When Mattie Winston catches her husband Dr. David Winston receiving some very special loving care from R.N. Karen Owenby, she quits her job and moves out. Mattie's best friend Izzy offers her a place to stay and a job as deputy coroner. Now, instead ...

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  Scared Stiff
  

  • Sep-2010
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 2
  

  Halloween night in Sorenson, Wisconsin, usually resembles any other small town: trick-or-treaters, costume parties, and lots of cheerfully scary decorations. But Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston is finding this year a little different, because among all...

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  Frozen Stiff
  

  • Sep-2011
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 3
  

  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 Sore...

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  Lucky Stiff
  

  • Mar-2013
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 4
  

  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 p...

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  Board Stiff
  

  • Mar-2014
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 5
  

  Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner Mattie Winston is back on the job. . .in a nursing home examining the body of Bernie Chase--the now former president of the Twilight Home's board of directors--who is covered in a powder used to turn liquids to so...

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  Stiff Penalty
  

  • Mar-2015
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 6
  

  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 s...

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  Stiff Competition
  

  • Jan-2016
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 7
  

  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...

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  Dead in the Water
  

  • Mar-2017
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 8
  

  Deputy coroner Mattie Winston is starting to feel like she’s in way over her head . . . As the single mom of an energetic toddler and an investigator working for the medical examiner’s office in small-town Sorenson, Wisconsin, Mattie is used t...

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  Dead Calm
  

  • Feb-2018
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 9
  

  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 lia...

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  Dead of Winter
  

  • Feb-2019
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 10
  

  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 investiga...

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  Needled to Death
  

  • Aug-2019
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Helping Hands Mystery - 1
  

  As a colleague of deputy coroner Mattie Winston, social worker Clothilde “Hildy” Schneider is no stranger to unsolved murders at Sorenson General Hospital. Except this time, it’s up to her to crack the case . . . Motivated by her own diffic...

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  Dead Ringer
  

  • Mar-2020
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 11
  

  A new murder victim with an old M.O. puts Mattie Winston on the trail of a killer who gives a grim new meaning to flower power . . . Spring is beginning to brighten Sorenson, Wisconsin, for Mattie and Steve Hurley and their family. While their so...

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  Night Shift
  

  • Aug-2020
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Helping Hands Mystery - 2
  

  When social worker Hildy Schneider commits to an after-hours side job, she finds herself drawn into the darker side of small-town Sorenson, Wisconsin -- and the twisted mind of an unnamed killer . . . Strange things have been happening since Hild...

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  Dead Even
  

  • Apr-2021
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  A Mattie Winston Mystery - 12
  

  In Sorenson, Wisconsin, a local bigshot is found with a pool cue through the heart -- and Mattie Winston must untangle a web of lies to sink a killer . . .  In her previous career as a nurse, Mattie Winston’s job was to keep death at bay. Now,...

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  A Death in Door County
  

  • Sep-2022
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Monster Hunter Mystery - 1
  

  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...

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  Death in the Dark Woods
  

  • Dec-2023
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Monster Hunter Mystery - 2
  

  A potential Bigfoot sighting is linked to a vicious murder, but skeptical cryptozoologist Morgan Carter is on the case in this new Monster Hunter Mystery by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan.Business has been booming since Morgan Carter solv...

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