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Author's Bio

Mary Jane Maffini is the author of three mystery series and nearly two dozen short stories. Her latest series, the Charlotte Adams mysteries, will launch in May 2007 with Organize Your Corpses, the first of three books featuring this professional organizer from New York State. Charlotte's own life is a bit of a mess, and not just because she seems to have 'solve murder' on her to-do list. But at least she gets to wear decent shoes and she's nice enough to include her favorite organizing tips. Charlotte joins the other two sleuths in Mary Jane's gang: Ottawa lawyer and victims' rights activist, Camilla MacPhee. Camilla is tough and focused, or else how could she handle that crazy family and those peculiar friends throughout five books?

Speak Ill of the Dead, the first Camilla MacPhee book was shortlisted for a Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis award for Best First Novel. The latest, The Dead Don't Get Out Much, was nominated for a Barry Award in 2006. Camilla's quite different from Fiona Silk, a reclusive and unsuccessful romance writer and extremely reluctant sleuth. Maybe things would be better if she had a sex life. Fiona first appeared in Lament for a Lounge Lizard, which was short listed for a Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis award for Best Novel of 2003. Fiona will be back in Fall 2007 in Too Hot to Handle. Last time it was man trouble, this time it's money problems. Oh, and things that catch fire. To find out more about any of these series, click on the title.

Mary Jane's short fiction has been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Chatelaine, Storyteller and all six Ladies' Killing Circle anthologies, among other places. She holds two Arthur Ellis awards for short stories, was shortlisted for two more, and has been anthologized in World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories.

She was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and has her BA (Hons) and MLS from Dalhousie University. After a career in libraries such as The Brewers' Association of Canada, Statistics Canada, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, and a wonderful ride as a co-owner of Prime Crime Mystery Bookstore, she has settled into a life of crime, surrounded by her two miniature dachshunds, the ghost of her beloved Corgoid Smudge, and her long-suffering husband. She's a former President of Crime Writers of Canada, and a former member of the board of directors of the Canadian Booksellers Association. She's a frequent speaker on writing mysteries and on the importance of Canadian crime fiction. In real life, although she is a member of the Ladies' Killing Circle, she has never killed anyone.

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