Deputy coroner Mattie Winston knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin — except the latest body discovered in a desolate field. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely hit the gossip mill in record time. So who was the murdered femme fatale? Whose knife was left planted in her chest? The mystery deepens when detective Steven Hurley … takes one look at the body and turns as white as the newly fallen snow… and excuses himself from the case.
It’ll take all of Mattie’s forensic skills to unravel the increasingly bizarre clues and find the killer… before she herself becomes just another cold case in a frigid Midwest winter!
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ALL books in the Mattie Winston series are just terrific.
Fun and intriguing book! The latest dead body turns out to be an ex-girlfriend of Detective Hurley and it appears she was stabbed with his knife. He asks Mattie for help in proving his innocence. Along the way, another murder with a connection to the detective occurs along with an attempted murder. It’s clear that someone is framing Hurley and …
I love this series & the characters within it. They’re a likable bunch. I also like the medical background story. The details are always accurate. Very well written.
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Winter in Wisconsin can be a pure delight if you like the cold and you don’t find a dead body on the side of the road with a knife plunged into her chest. That is exactly what Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston finds. Detective Steven Hurley catches the case but as soon as he gets there he says he isn’t feeling well and reassigns …