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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1999
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Camilla MacPhee Mystery

1 - Speak Ill of the Dead (Sep-1999)
2 - The Icing on the Corpse ()
3 - Little Boy Blues (Aug-2002)
4 - The Devil's in the Details (Oct-2004)
5 - The Dead Don't Get Out Much (Nov-2005)
6 - Law and Disorder (Jan-2009)

Charlotte Adams

1 - Organize Your Corpses (May-2007)
2 - The Cluttered Corpse (Apr-2008)
3 - Death Loves a Messy Desk (May-2009)
4 - Closet Confidential (Jul-2010)
5 - The Busy Woman's Guide to Murder (Apr-2011)

A Fiona Silk Mystery

1 - Lament for a Lounge Lizard (Oct-2003)
2 - Too Hot to Handle (Aug-2007)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, although she runs a law office specializing in Justice for Victims of violent crimes. However, her uneasy association with the world of crime takes a bizarre turn when a vicious, vindi...



  • In the third Camilla MacPhee Mystery, Camilla’s looking forward to cutting loose at Ottawa’s Bluesfest, the huge open-air extravaganza, and to seeing the tail end of her annoying office assistant, Alvin, who is finally quitting. Then the news com...



  • As if it weren’t bad enough being a failed romance writer with no sex life, poor Fiona Silk has to cope with the spectacularly embarrassing demise of her old lover, the poet, Benedict Kelly. It’s exactly the sort of thing people notice in St. Aub...



  • 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....



  • CLAUDIA BISHOP AND DEAN JAMES invite you to dine in. There's murder on the menu... Main Course: Sixteen short stories Side Dishes: Sixteen all -- new recipes and author interviews Sink your teeth into these delicacies from today's masters of ...



  • 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 guid...



  • Charlotte Adams is a professional organizer. Nothing is out of place in her closets...but her life's a mess. So she's dumped her cheating ex-fiance, moved back home, and started making up to-do lists--some of which include solving the occasional murd...



  • Poor Fiona Silk is broke again. Her romance writing career is tanking, and her tiny house in the lovely community of St. Aubaine may be sold for unpaid taxes. But Fiona’s new agent has a planFiona can write an erotic cookbook. This project would be...



  • After freeing herself of some useless clutter--namely a cheating fiance--Manhattan financial analyst 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 mo...






  • International bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his razor-sharp instinct for crime writing to this unique anthology featuring the cream of crime fiction. With a selection of 15 stories featuring established bestsellers and new voices, The Pengu...



  • One of Canada’s best-loved sleuths returns in her sixth hair-raising adventure. Victims’ advocate Camilla MacPhee is following the trial of Lloyd Brugel, a ruthless criminal kingpin charged with a fatal firebombing. Shes looking forward to seeing...



  • Nothing makes Charlotte Adams happier than freeing people from clutter--and she boasts a waiting list of sloppy clients. Her free time has been taken up solving fatally untidy cases. Her latest task: a woman has hired her to organize a coworker's hop...



  • Manhattanite-turned-small-town-organizer Charlotte Adams is about to put a dent in someone's accident... Charlotte's latest client is a real beaut. Lorelei Beauchamp is the image of the international Face It line of cosmetics and a lifelong acquaint...



  • When murder gets messy and the clues get cluttered, professional organizer and amateur sleuth Charlotte Adams steps in to restore order. In Mary lane Maffini's latest, Charlotte suspects her 911 operator is the one who's been busy...settling some old...



  • You Light Up My Death is the latest in the Camilla MacPhee Mystery Series by award-winning author Mary Jane Maffini.Maffini is a relaxed, accomplished, and wickedly funny writer. -The Montreal GazetteOttawa lawyer and victims' advocate Camilla MacPhe...



    • / Cozy Mystery
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    Finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Whodunnit Award for Best Traditional Mystery! When her mother disappears, professional organizer Charlotte Adams will have to take off on a very disorganized trip across Europe to save her life . . .It's not u...



    • / Law Enforcement
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    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 terrifi...


Award-Winning Books by Mary Jane Maffini

The Busy Woman's Guide to Murder
2011 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Amateur Sleuth


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Jane Maffini has published 17 books.

Mary Jane Maffini does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, You Light Up My Death, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Mary Jane Maffini, Speak Ill of the Dead, was published in September 1999.

Yes. Mary Jane Maffini has 3 series.