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BOARD STIFF

Board Stiff, March 2014
Mattie Winston #5
by Annelise Ryan

Kensington
Featuring: Detective Hurley; Mattie Winston
368 pages
ISBN: 0758272766
EAN: 9780758272768
Kindle: B00F8J6RG4
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"Warp up in a cozy blanket"

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BOARD STIFF
Annelise Ryan

Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted October 19, 2014

Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Cozy

Izzy works for the Medical Examiner's office. Izzy is supposed to be assisting in an autopsy. Instead, she would rather be doing the investigating. Because of things that have happened in her past, she must see a counselor. She was married and one day finds out that her husband was having an affair with a co-worker. Not only having an affair, but when women comes up dead and pregnant Izzy and her ex are the prime suspects in the murder.

Izzy must go though this in order to get her job back. Izzy thought that she had found the right guy in Hurley. Just as thinks seem to be looking up, there is a knock on Hurley's door. To Izzy's surprise, it is his ex wife and his child. Hurley thought that he was divorced and had no idea that he had a teenage daughter. Talk about putting a relationship on hold.

Izzy is allowed to go back to her job. Wouldn't you know it; the first assignment is to work with Hurley again. Hurley tries to explain everything to Izzy. His ex never got the divorce and never told him about their child. While investigating the murder, they both realize that they really do care about each other.

Annelise Ryan's book is a cozy mystery. However, it has some very humorous parts to it. Who would think that finding dead bodies could be so funny? Annelise Ryan has put some very different twists into a cozy mystery.

BOARD STIFF is a great read, and I can't wait to see what the next one brings.

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SUMMARY

Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner Mattie Winston is
back
on the job. . .in a nursing home examining the body of
Bernie Chaseβ€”the now former president of the Twilight
Home's
board of directorsβ€”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,
fulfilling her new job requirement of seeing a shrink, and
wrangling with the Twilight Home's board of directors,
Mattie's got her scrubbed hands full. She'll need all of
her
outside-the-box forensic skills to crack a case that's
turning out to be strangerβ€”and more dangerousβ€”than
anything
she's seen before!

EXCERPT

No excerpt available.

BOOK SERIES

Mattie Winston

Scared Stiff
SCARED STIFF
#2.0 β€’ August 2011
Stiff Competition
STIFF COMPETITION
#7.0 β€’ February 2016
Dead in the Water
DEAD IN THE WATER
#8.0 β€’ March 2017
Dead of Winter
DEAD OF WINTER
#10.0 β€’ March 2019

 

 

 

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