02120cam a2200301 i 4500 296014560 TxAuBib 20110831120000.0 100916s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780758234568 0758234562 eng rda TxAuBib rda Ryan, Annelise. Frozen stiff [BOOK] / Annelise Ryan. New York : Kensington Books, 2011. 323 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Mattie Winston ; 3 Death is never pretty, and deputy coroner Mattie Winston's latest case is no exception. But this victim certainly was strikingly beautiful--before someone stuck that knife into her chest. Mattie knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, so the deceased is definitely a stranger from out of town. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely hit the gossip mill in record time. So what was the victim doing here, laid out in this desolate field? Things only get murkier with the arrival at the scene of the usually stoic and dependable detective Steven Hurley; one look at the body and he turns as white as the newly fallen snow, and excuses himself from the case. It turns out the victim was a top investigative reporter from Chicago, and Hurley not only knew her, they dated a year and a half ago, until she broke it off. While Mattie grapples with her jealousy of a dead woman, Hurley swears her to secrecy and tells her that knife in his ex's chest is his! It's a case with more twists than Maddie's own crazy love life, and it'll take all of her forensic skills to unravel the increasingly bizarre clues and find the killer, before she herself becomes just another cold case!. 20110831. Murder Investigation Fiction. Coroners Wisconsin Fiction. Wisconsin Fiction. Mystery fiction. Mattie Winston ; 3.