Dead ringer

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Label

Dead ringer

Statement of responsibility

Annelise Ryan

Creator

• trueRyan, Annelise

Author

• trueRyan, Annelise

Subject

• trueCold cases (Criminal investigation)
• trueCoroners
• Coroners -- Fiction
• trueCriminal methods
• Detective and mystery fiction
• trueDetectives
• False imprisonment -- Fiction
• Forensic fiction
• trueMarital conflict
• trueMen/women relations
• trueMurder investigation
• trueMurder victims
• trueUnited States
• trueWinston, Mattie (Fictitious character)
• Winston, Mattie, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• trueWisconsin
• Wisconsin -- Fiction
• trueWomen coroners
• Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
• trueBlended families
• trueClues

Genre

• Fiction
• Forensic fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Spring is beginning to brighten Sorenson, Wisconsin, for Mattie and Steve Hurley and their family. While their son Matthew may be in his terrible twos and Steve's daughter Emily a moody teenager, the kids bring light to their lives when their work is dark by its nature - Steve is a homicide detective and Mattie is a medicolegal death investigator, aka medical examiner. They deal in corpses. The latest corpse, a Jane Doe, was clearly an addict, but drugs didn't kill her, at least not directly. She's been stabbed multiple times in a pattern that is disturbingly familiar to Mattie. When she discovers flower petals from yellow carnations stuffed into the stab wounds, she recognizes a very specific M.O. - belonging to a convicted serial killer who's currently serving a life sentence. The details of the flower petals were never made public in the last case, so it can't be a copycat crime. It looks like the wrong man is in prison, and the murderer is still at large. Now it's up to Mattie and Steve to get the case reopened - and catch the real carnation killer..."--Publisher description

Member of

• Mattie Winston mystery, 11
• trueMattie Winston Mysteries

Storyline

• trueIntricately plotted

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Character

• trueFlawed

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Mattie Winston mystery

Series volume

[11]

Target audience

adult