Working Stiff (Mattie Winston Series #1)

A NICE SURPRISE

I LOVED THIS BOOK. THIS WAS MY FIRST BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR, BUT IT WON'T BE MY LAST. THE CHARACTER MATTIE WINSTON WILL DRAW YOU IN FROM THE FIRST PAGE, AND HAVE YOU ROOTING HER ON IN THE LAST PAGES. THE SUSPENSE, ACTION, AND ROMANCE IS GREAT. I LOVED EVERY TWIST AND TURN. THIS WAS A WELL WRITTEN MYSTERY AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT TO ALL. ENJOY.......

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

fun investigative tale

She thought she had the perfect marriage and perfect job working at the same hospital as her husband Dr. David Winston as he was a surgeon and she is a surgeon's nurse. However Mattie Winston's world collapsed when she caught him with another nurse Karen Owenby. Without a word, she rushes home, packs her bags, and visits her best friend medical examiner Izzy, who gives her a home in his guest cottage and hires her; training her to be a deputy coroner.

When Mattie learns that Karen is at the home she once shared with David, she cannot stop herself from peaking through a window. What she observes horrifies her as the pair argues heatedly until David throttles her. Later that same night, Izzy and Mattie are called to a homicide scene where a female corpse has two bullets in her head. The victim is Karen. Suspicion falls rightfully on David, but though she is angry and acrimonious with him and knows what she saw at their house, Mattie refuses to believe he would kill anyone. A second murder implicates David further as Detective Steve Hurley finds evidence hanging Mattie's soon to be ex at a time the cop and the trainee are attracted to one another and he realizes she should be a prime suspect as a betrayed wife.

The story line is fast-paced from the moment that Mattie realizes her spouse is a womanizing cheat, but not a killer and never slows down as the heroine risks her life (to the chagrin of her boss and the detective) to catch the culprit. Fascinatingly though she is a WORKING STIFF as an apprentice deputy coroner, the enjoyable story line reads in may ways like an amateur sleuth as she has little experience on homicide investigations. Fans will enjoy Annelise Ryan's fun investigative tale, the opening act of a new series.

Harriet Klausner

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

very enjoyable

Good read, kept you guessing. Did not expect the ending until the very end
which is good.

Loved the book.Being an R .N I especially enjoyed the shop talk.To decrease on idenity theft nurses are now finger printed.

Good first story

I finished reading this mystery and found myself wanting to read the second (Scared Stiff) one right away. It is a good start to what looks to be a good series.

Excellent story

Great series. I am on the third book now and have a hard time putting it down. Highly recommend. The touches of comedy help move the story along. Great characters.

Great series

Loved reading these books, can't wait to read more about mattie and hurley!

Great book, couldn't put it down

I really enjoyed this book. It goes from serious to Keystone Cops in one paragraph. I had many a good laugh in reading. Nice to see I'm not the only one not named Grace for a reason.

Good first book!

This book was good, considering this is the author's first one. I really enjoyed the character development, and it has some really funny moments. The middle of the book was a little slow, but the last 100 or so pages were very exciting. The mystery was predictable, but not everyone is John Grisham! I look forward to more stories about Mattie -- we need to knwo more about the infamous nipple incident!

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