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Annelise Ryan is a pseudonym for Beth Amos, the USA Today bestselling author of 30 novels, including the Monster Hunter Mysteries featuring cryptozoologist and bookstore owner, Morgan Carter, the Mattie Winston mystery series, featuring a wryly cynical nurse-turned-coroner, and the Helping Hands Mysteries featuring social worker Hildy Schneider.

In addition, she is the author of the Mack's Bar Mystery series written as Allyson K. Abbott and five standalone paranormal thrillers written as Beth Amos.

She is a retired emergency room nurse living in Wisconsin. There are several reasons why she decided to use pseudonyms, not the least of which was that her ER patients might not have been comfortable knowing she spent her spare time thinking up cle
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Change Is In The Wind

I'm delighted to report that the Mattie Winston series is going to continue for several more books, but the look and the titles are changing a bit. Book #8 in the series, Dead in the Water, has a beautiful cover with a wholly different look as well as a new title theme. And it's coming out in hardcover! No more "Stiff" titles, but the content is the same old Mattie Winston adventures and humor.

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“I'm surprised by how much the inside of a dead body smells like the inside of a live one.”
Annelise Ryan, Working Stiff

“Like other forms of mass, fat can’t just disappear, and it tries to maintain a state of equilibrium. So if one person in a given microcosm loses weight, someone else in the same group has to gain. It’s the basic physics of fat and, unfortunately, my little niche of the universe seems to be populated with a bunch of persistent, consistent losers who keep trying to shift their share of the fat onto me.”
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“I'm surprised by how much the inside of a dead body smells like the inside of a live one.”
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