Little Boy Blues (36 page)

Mary Jane Maffini
is a lapsed librarian, former co-owner of the Prime Crime Mystery Bookstore in Ottawa and author of the Camilla MacPhee series (the other books are
Speak Ill of the Dead
and
The Icing on the Corpse.
) She was a 2001 double nominee for the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards for best short story. Her quirky characters have appeared in
Storyteller Magazine
,
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
,
Over My Dead Body
,
Chatelaine
and
On Spec
, as well as in the Canadian crime anthologies
Iced
,
Best of Cold Blood
,
Menopause is Murder
,
Cottage Country Killers
,
Fit to Die
(RendezVous Crime 2001) and
Over the Edge
. “Cotton Armour” in
The Ladies Killing Circle
won the Arthur Ellis Award for best short short story in 1995, and she was a 1999 finalist for best first novel for
Speak Ill of the Dead
.

She is currently president of the Crime Writers of Canada, a member of the Ladies’ Killing Circle and is working on more Camilla MacPhee novels.

Speak Ill of the Dead

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, vindictive fashion columnist with underworld connections named Mitzi Brochu is crucified in a downtown hotel room. The problem is that Camilla’s best friend Robin was on her way to meet the victim, and has become the main suspect.

ISBN 0-929141-65-2 $9.95 U.S / $11.95 in Canada

The Icing on the Corpse

It’s now forty below in Canada’s capital, but 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 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. 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.

ISBN 0-929141-81-4. $10.95 U.S / $12.95 in Canada