Mattie Winston mysteries
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In this hard-boiled mystery series opener, a former nurse becomes a coroner who winds up investigating her cheating ex-husband for murder.
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 suggests she'd be a natural as deputy coroner. Now, instead of taking patients' pulses,
...2) Scared stiff
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Kensington Books
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English
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After discovering the dead body of Shannon Tolliver on Halloween night, Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston and her boss, Izzy, use their medical skills to catch a clever killer who is trying to frame Shannon's ex-husband for the crime.
3) Frozen stiff
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Kensington Books
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English
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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.
4) Lucky stiff
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Kensington Books
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English
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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 jackpot. Upon closer inspection, Mattie and detective Steve Hurley are convinced Jack was murdered to steal his winnings, giving the phrase Black Jack a whole new meaning...
5) Board stiff
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Kensington Books
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English
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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 solids. The home's residents are certain Bernie was offing the patients who cost him too much. . .and the patient that found him can't remember a thing. Between her ongoing tug of war with Detective Hurley,...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Kensington Mass Market Edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"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...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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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 to her life being a juggling act. But now that she's moved in with Detective Steve Hurley and his teenaged daughter Emily, and has started planning their wedding, her home life is looking more like a three-ring circus....
9) Dead calm
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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373 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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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? But...
10) Dead of winter
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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346 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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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. The staff is suspicious, but while they attend to the teenager, the unidentified man slips out. Then the girl dies, but not before informing social worker Hildy Schneider that the man had her little sister as well. Mattie's exam reveals forensic evidence of long-term IV drug use and physical abuse, findings consistent...
11) Dead ringer
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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325 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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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...
12) Dead even
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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328 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"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 areas 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...