Dead Ringer, Annelise Ryan
Dead Ringer, Annelise Ryan
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Dead Ringer

Author: Annelise Ryan

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/17/2020


Synopsis

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 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, a.k.a. medical examiner. They deal in corpses.

The latest corpse, a Jane Doe, was clearly an addict, but drugs didn't kill her, at least not directly. She's been stabbed multiple times in a pattern that is disturbingly familiar to Mattie. When she discovers flower petals from yellow carnations stuffed into the stab wounds, she recognizes a very specific M.O.—belonging to a convicted serial killer who's currently serving a life sentence.

The details of the flower petals were never made public in the last case, so it can't be a copycat crime. It looks like the wrong man is in prison, and the murderer is still at large. Now it's up to Mattie and Steve to get the case reopened—and catch the real carnation killer . . .

About Annelise Ryan

USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan is the pseudonym for the author of the Mattie Winston Mysteries and another mystery series. She has written more than 200 published articles, worked as a book reviewer for Barnes & Noble, and is an active member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. She currently works as a registered nurse in an ER.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalia on January 15, 2020

Mattie Winston is a deputy coroner for the medical examiner's office in small-town Sorenson, Wisconsin. She has a two-year-old son with her husband Detective Steve Hurley and a teenaged stepdaughter. In this installment, a Jane Doe has been stabbed multiple times and flower petals from yellow carnat......more

Goodreads review by Moondance on January 18, 2021

The dead woman in front of me is a stranger. A Jane Doe stirs a memory for Mattie which instigates looking into the possibility that a convicted killer is innocent. I love so much about this series! Mattie and Hurley are one of my favorite couples. There is a lot of miscommunication between the two of......more

Goodreads review by Stanley on March 03, 2020

Mattie Winston is a medicolegal investigator (assistant coroner) in small town Sorenson, Wisconsin and along with her husband, Detective Steve Hurley, often work together on cases. They have Matthew, a toddler and Steve's teenage daughter Emily. They've recently bought a new home and are trying to m......more

Goodreads review by Hanlie on February 19, 2020

Mattie Winston is a medicolegal death investigator who is called out to assist when a woman is found dead along a country road. Together with her husband homicides detective Steve Hurley they have to figure out who the woman is and what happened to her. There are five stab wounds in the woman's tors......more

Goodreads review by Sue Em on January 09, 2020

A fresh corpse bearing an unusual pattern of stab wounds with flower petals leads Mattie Winston to question whether there is a copycat killer or someone wrongly committed for the original crimes. Along the way in this tightly plotted mystery, we meet up again Maggie's family, co-workers and friends......more