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The Icing on the Corpse 2

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:16:03 +0200

In the second Camilla MacPhee mystery, it's now forty below in Canada's capital, but victims' advocate Camilla is feeling the heat. When a savage serial batterer goes on the rampage looking for revenge against his former girlfriend, the terrified woman turns to Camilla and Justice for Victims for help. But a sudden change of fortune causes her client to really feel the chill. Camilla wades into the investigation, now one of murder, and gets a frosty reception from the police. Soon everyone connected with the case is either cooling their heels behind bars or trying to avoid cold storage in the morgue. Camilla's really skating on thin ice looking for this killer - literally.

Camilla MacPhee Mysteries 6 Book Bundle

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:15:58 +0200

Now available in one bundle for the first time, the first six books of the Camilla MacPhee Mystery series 01-06 are gathered together.

Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, and her uneasy association with the world of crime takes bizarre turns through hotel crucifixions, firebombing, vengeful exes, drowned lawyers, and bossy sisters in this seriously funny, dark mystery series.

01 - Speak Ill of the Dead

Camilla gets tangled up in what looks like a bizarre vendetta when a vicious fashion columnist with underworld connections is crucified in a downtown hotel room, and her best friend becomes the main suspect.

02 - The Icing on the Corpse

What starts with a terrified woman being stalked by a violent ex soon has Camilla embroiled in something even more sinister.

Includes four more Camilla MacPhee mysteries:

03 - Little Boy Blues

04 - The Devil's in the Details

05 - The Dead Don't Get Out Much

06 - Law and Disorder

Death Plans a Perfect Trip

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:16:00 +0200

It's not unusual for Esme Adams to dash off overseas with no warning, but when weeks pass and Charlotte still hasn't heard from her, she begins to worry that her mother's in danger and has gone into hiding. Before she can even begin to guess where to start looking, though, Charlotte finds her own home ransacked and then set ablaze. Determined to escape a more serious attack while the police investigate, she sets off for Europe, hoping to track down her mother at one of her secluded getaway spots.

As Charlotte follows a winding trail of clues through Paris, Lisbon, Milan and beyond—narrowly missing her mother in each city, and just as narrowly eluding her pursuers—secrets begin to emerge about her mother's shadowy past. A history of ties to criminal organizations, an infamous bank heist, and a gentleman thief who may have been her one true love all raise questions about her mother's true identity and the peril she faces. As Charlotte processes the dizzying...

[C. MacP #5] The Dead Don't Get Out Much

Sat, 23 Nov 2013 23:15:17 +0200

Remembrance Day is a proud day for Camilla MacPhee's good friend, Mrs. Violet Parnell, one of five thousand Canadian women to go overseas during World War II. But the next day she has vanished. Camilla, with only a few letters and documents to guide her, follows her friend to Tuscany, chasing though historic towns, across high promontories and along steep mountain roads. Vanishing old partisans and Allied aircraft crash sites keep Camilla hopping as she tries to find Mrs. P. before someone with a deadly serious reason to keep the past hidden finds her first. The fifth Camilla MacPhee takes the irascible Ottawa lawyer's adventures to an exotic new locale, with the usual murderous results.

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About the Author

Mary Jane Maffini is a lapsed librarian and a mystery addict. Author of six Camilla MacPhee mysteries, two Fiona Silk adventures, five Charlotte Adams books, and nearly two dozen short stories. She holds two Arthur Ellis Awards for best mystery short story, as well as the Derrick Murdoch lifetime achievement award. Speak Ill of the Dead was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel and Lament for a Lounge Lizard for best novel. She lives and plots in Ottawa.

[C. MacP #4] The Devil's in the Details

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:15:18 +0200

It's Labour Day, Camilla's favourite weekend of the year. She's planning to relax and ponder what's happening in her relationship with policman Sgt. Ray Deveau. She's emphatically not planning to get involved in anything that means trouble. No wonder the news that an old acquaintance has had an accident comes as a surprise. There must be some mistake. By the time Camilla unearths Laura's connection to a violent revolutionary group active two decades earlier, she's had several blows to the head and discovered that people shes been talking to keep ending up dead. Someone will do anything to keep Laura's connections secret. Getting arrested is the least of Camilla's problems.

Law and Disorder

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:46:00 +0200

The Dead Don't Get Out Much

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:27:10 +0200

The Busy Woman's Guide to Murder

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:27:09 +0200

Fiona Silk Mysteries 2-Book Bundle

Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:15:18 +0200

This digital bundle of the Fiona Silk Mystery series presents Lament for a Lounge Lizard and Too Hot To Handle in a unique two-book edition. The series, set in a fictional and picturesque West Quebec town with a tourist based economy, features Fiona Silk, a would-be divorcée with a strong desire to be left alone, an urgent need to make some money, and an almost total lack of talent when it comes to writing romance novels. Nobody's perfect. She's a nice girl, and good friend, and the kind of person you can count on for a bit of humour if you're stuck overnight in a damp cave that smells of bear. Maybe she'll do better writing an erotic cookbook, although she's not much good in the kitchen either and it's been a long time since she had anything resembling a sex life. Lament for a Lounge Lizard As if it weren't bad enough being a failed romance writer, poor Fiona Silk has to cope with the spectacularly embarrassing demise of her old lover, the poet, Benedict Kelly in her four-poster bed. It's exactly the sort of thing people notice in St. Aubaine, Quebec, a picturesque bilingual tourist town of two thousand. Now the police start getting nasty, the media vans stay parked on her lawn and the neighbours' tongues keep wagging in both official languages. Worse, someone's bumping off the other suspects. Can Fiona outwit a murderer in the mood for some serious mischief. Too Hot to Handle Oh dear. Maybe poor introverted Fiona Silk isn't the right person to compile an erotic cookbook. She still has no sex life, although maybe her great love will get his memory back. And she's not much of a writer really. Combine these with the small matter that she has no working oven and the state of her wiring is serious. Never mind, if you're about to lose your house for overdue taxes, you try to your best. What a shame so many things catch fire. As the bodies pile up, West Quebec's most reluctant sleuth must get the smoke out of her eyes before anything else goes up in flames. But at least there are recipes, although you should approach them with caution.

Organize Your Corpses

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:46:01 +0200

The Devil's in the Details

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:27:10 +0200

Death Loves a Messy Desk

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:15:16 +0200

The Cluttered Corpse

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:15:16 +0200

After freeing herself of some useless clutter - namely a cheating finance - Manhatten financial Charlotte Adams went home to Woodbridge, New York, to start over as a professional organizer. But she's learning that foul play can creep into the most well ordered life. Executive Emmy Lou Rheinbeck has a house that could be featured in a magazine - or so Charlotte thinks until she gets upstairs and finds a mess that leads to murder.

Little Boy Blues

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:46:00 +0200