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Book SynopsisPerfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell, USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan''s twelfth mystery featuring Mattie Ryan finds the Wisconsin nurse-turned-medicolegal investigator balancing a high-profile investigation with her hectic home life after a local realtor is found with a pool cue through the heart...In her previous career as a nurse, Mattie Winston''s job was to keep death at bay. Now, as a medicolegal investigator, she''s required to study death intimately--to figure out causes and timing, and help deduce whether it was natural or suspicious.
In the case of Montgomery Monty Dixon, a well-to-do realtor, there can be little doubt: broken pool cues do not embed themselves. Monty''s body is found in the game room of his lavish house, the walls adorned with photos of Monty and various celebrities. But as Mattie and her husband, homicide detective Steve Hurley, both know, money and connections can''t protect anyone from a killer.
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