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Fiction Women Sleuths

The Icing on the Corpse

A Camilla MacPhee Mystery

by (author) Mary Jane Maffini

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2001
Category
Women Sleuths, General, Cozy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780929141817
    Publish Date
    Sep 2001
    List Price
    $10.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459714205
    Publish Date
    Sep 2001
    List Price
    $6.99

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Description

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.

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.

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