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Annelise Ryan

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Mystery & Thrillers, Humor, Romance

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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 ...more

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	A Death in Door County (Monster Hunter, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 8,908 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in the Dark Woods (Monster Hunter, #2) 3.73 avg rating — 3,544 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Working Stiff (Mattie Winston Mysteries, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 3,283 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scared Stiff (Mattie Winston Mysteries, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 2,754 ratings — published 2010 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frozen Stiff (Mattie Winston Mysteries, #3) 4.04 avg rating — 2,232 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucky Stiff (Mattie Winston Mysteries, #4) 3.97 avg rating — 1,823 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Board Stiff (Mattie Winston Mysteries, #5) 4.07 avg rating — 1,750 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beast of the North Woods (Monster Hunter, #3) 3.78 avg rating — 1,816 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stiff Penalty (Mattie Winston Mysteries, #6) 4.12 avg rating — 1,456 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stiff Competition (Mattie Winston Mysteries #7) 4.21 avg rating — 1,226 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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.”
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“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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