Beth Amos Books in Order
Explore the Beth Amos suspense novels by Beth Amos, with reading order, short summaries, and background on the standalone paranormal thrillers.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
19 books
Cold White Fury
by Beth Amos
1996
Eyes of Night
by Beth Amos
1997
Second Sight
by Beth Amos
1998
Working Stiff
by Annelise Ryan
2009
After catching her husband with another nurse, Mattie Winston leaves the hospital for a deputy coroner job. Then her first murder victim is the other woman, and Mattie lands painfully close to the suspect list.
Scared Stiff
by Annelise Ryan
2010
On Halloween night, fake gore gives way to a very real corpse. Mattie thinks the victim's estranged husband is innocent, so she uses her medical eye to dig into a case that gets stranger and more dangerous fast.
Frozen Stiff
by Annelise Ryan
2011
A beautiful stranger is found stabbed in a snowy field, and Steve Hurley knows her too well, because she was his former girlfriend and the knife is his. Mattie follows the twists while trying to ignore her own jealousy.
Lucky Stiff
by Annelise Ryan
2013
A Christmas Day house fire leaves a casino winner dead and his money missing. With suspects everywhere and another body soon to follow, Mattie and Hurley race to find the killer before the case turns even uglier.
Nick of Time
by Beth Amos
2013
The Face of Death
by Beth Amos
2013
Board Stiff
by Annelise Ryan
2014
At a nursing home, Mattie examines a board president found dead under suspiciously odd circumstances. The residents think he was killing costly patients, a key witness remembers nothing, and the politics around the case are anything but gentle.
Stiff Penalty
by Annelise Ryan
2015
When a high school math teacher is stabbed with a barbecue fork, the evidence points to his teenage son. Mattie isn't convinced, and while dealing with pregnancy and her estranged father's return, she hunts the real killer.
Stiff Competition
by Annelise Ryan
2016
Hunting season turns deadly when a land developer is found in the woods with an arrow through his neck. While Mattie investigates, Steve Hurley's missing teenage daughter raises the stakes and tightens the clock.
Dead in the Water
by Annelise Ryan
2017
Mattie is planning a wedding and blending households when a new hire at the medical examiner's office is killed on a fishing trip and his girlfriend vanishes. To keep her own life from capsizing, she has to work through some very murky clues.
Dead Calm
by Annelise Ryan
2019
What looks like a seedy motel murder-suicide is actually a carefully staged double killing. Newlyweds Mattie and Steve juggle family strain, competing suspects, and mounting pressure as they try to corner the real murderer.
Needled to Death
by Annelise Ryan
2019
Social worker Hildy Schneider hears from a grief-group member that her son's death may have been murder. With her therapy dog and Detective Bob Richmond beside her, she starts pulling at clues that reach all over Sorenson.
Dead of Winter
by Annelise Ryan
2020
A battered teenage girl dies in the ER after saying her little sister is still with the man who brought her in. Mattie, Hildy, and Steve follow the evidence into a brutal human trafficking case.
Dead Ringer
by Annelise Ryan
2020
A Jane Doe is stabbed in the signature pattern of a serial killer who is supposedly already in prison. Mattie and Steve reopen old ground and find themselves chasing a murderer who may never have been caught.
Night Shift
by Annelise Ryan
2020
Moonlighting with local police, Hildy Schneider is pulled into a late-night case when a former patient insists he's haunted by a murder victim. A body in a decaying farmhouse turns his wild story into something far more dangerous.
Dead Even
by Annelise Ryan
2021
A wealthy realtor is found dead with a broken pool cue through his heart. Mattie and Steve sort through fake alibis, gambling debts, shady finances, and family secrets while trying to keep their own home life steady.
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