Annelise Ryan Books in Order

After catching her husband with another nurse, Mattie Winston leaves the hospital for a deputy coroner job. Then her first murder victim is the other woman, and Mattie lands painfully close to the suspect list.

On Halloween night, fake gore gives way to a very real corpse. Mattie thinks the victim's estranged husband is innocent, so she uses her medical eye to dig into a case that gets stranger and more dangerous fast.

A beautiful stranger is found stabbed in a snowy field, and Steve Hurley knows her too well, because she was his former girlfriend and the knife is his. Mattie follows the twists while trying to ignore her own jealousy.

A Christmas Day house fire leaves a casino winner dead and his money missing. With suspects everywhere and another body soon to follow, Mattie and Hurley race to find the killer before the case turns even uglier.

At a nursing home, Mattie examines a board president found dead under suspiciously odd circumstances. The residents think he was killing costly patients, a key witness remembers nothing, and the politics around the case are anything but gentle.

When a high school math teacher is stabbed with a barbecue fork, the evidence points to his teenage son. Mattie isn't convinced, and while dealing with pregnancy and her estranged father's return, she hunts the real killer.

Hunting season turns deadly when a land developer is found in the woods with an arrow through his neck. While Mattie investigates, Steve Hurley's missing teenage daughter raises the stakes and tightens the clock.

Mattie is planning a wedding and blending households when a new hire at the medical examiner's office is killed on a fishing trip and his girlfriend vanishes. To keep her own life from capsizing, she has to work through some very murky clues.

What looks like a seedy motel murder-suicide is actually a carefully staged double killing. Newlyweds Mattie and Steve juggle family strain, competing suspects, and mounting pressure as they try to corner the real murderer.

Social worker Hildy Schneider hears from a grief-group member that her son's death may have been murder. With her therapy dog and Detective Bob Richmond beside her, she starts pulling at clues that reach all over Sorenson.

A battered teenage girl dies in the ER after saying her little sister is still with the man who brought her in. Mattie, Hildy, and Steve follow the evidence into a brutal human trafficking case.

A Jane Doe is stabbed in the signature pattern of a serial killer who is supposedly already in prison. Mattie and Steve reopen old ground and find themselves chasing a murderer who may never have been caught.

Moonlighting with local police, Hildy Schneider is pulled into a late-night case when a former patient insists he's haunted by a murder victim. A body in a decaying farmhouse turns his wild story into something far more dangerous.

A wealthy realtor is found dead with a broken pool cue through his heart. Mattie and Steve sort through fake alibis, gambling debts, shady finances, and family secrets while trying to keep their own home life steady.

Bookstore owner and cryptozoologist Morgan Carter is asked to investigate bodies on Lake Michigan that look like the work of a lake monster. With her dog Newt, she heads into Death's Door to separate legend from murder.

After reports of a Bigfoot-like creature in northern Wisconsin, Morgan Carter is asked to look into a man killed by a savage throat wound. She and Newt head into the forest and uncover lies, danger, and something unexpected.

An ice fisherman is mauled near Rhinelander, and the only witness swears a hodag did it. Morgan Carter takes the case to clear him, but the closer she gets, the more exposed she becomes to a very real threat.

A woman turns up dead on a lonely rural road, apparently mauled by the Beast of Bray Road. Morgan Carter follows scratches, rumors, and local fear to learn whether a monster, or a very human killer, is stalking the night.