Working Stiff

Name: Working Stiff
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Annelise Ryan
ISBN: 9781666171983

Author: Annelise Ryan

Series: Mattie Winston Mysteries #1

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/19/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Amateur Sleuth

Synopsis

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 RN 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, Mattie's weighing their hearts and livers.

But Mattie's first homicide call turns out to be for none other than Nurse Karen, and even though she saw her ex in a heated argument with the newly deceased the night before, she refuses to believe David could be a killer. Keeping mum about what she saw, Mattie is also left speechless by the sight of hunky Detective Steve Hurley . . .

From learning the ropes on her new job to sorting out her feelings about her ex and dealing with her growing attraction to Detective Hurley, Mattie's in deep water and in danger of sinking quickly, especially when she places herself dead center in the path of a desperate—yet determined—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 Beverly on November 27, 2021

An enjoyable cozy mystery. Main character is likeable and funny the situations she gets herself in. I will continue with this series.......more

Goodreads review by Mystereity Reviews on April 05, 2018

I don't know why it took so long for me to hear about this series, but I'm happy I found it! Laugh out loud funny and suspenseful, it was impossible to put down. In fact, I started this on audiobook and it motivated me to get out for my daily walk, but switched to the Kindle copy because it was so g......more

Goodreads review by Lokki on March 21, 2015

Meh....it was just okay. Certainly not as good as some of the reviews here led me to believe it would be. I didn't find it really that humorous although you could tell that Ryan thought she was being clever but really she was just trying too hard. There are just too many quirky characters in this to......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on January 26, 2021

I let this one sit on my TBR pile far too long. I really enjoyed this start to a new cozy mystery series that centers around Mattie. Mattie was a nurse at the hospital until she catches her doctor husband cheating on her and she lives him and her job. She starts over in the coroner’s office and her......more

Goodreads review by Chris on August 24, 2024

2009 cozy mystery debut with a gaggle of quirky characters that the genre brings with it. I had set this aside to finish another book and picked it up last night and breezed through it despite some of the negatives. There was quite a bit of humor that I appreciated as well. Mattie Winston has just se......more