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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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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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