The Dead Don't Get Out Much (31 page)

 

Mary Jane Maffini
is a lapsed librarian, former co-owner of the Prime Crime Mystery Bookstore in Ottawa, author of two mystery series and a double Arthur Ellis winner for short crime fiction.

The books in the Camilla MacPhee series are:
Speak Ill of the Dead
, which was shortlisted for an Arthur for Best First Novel,
The Icing on the Corpse, Little Boy Blues, The Devil's in the Details
and
The Dead Don't Get Out Much
. In 2003, she launched a new series, the Fiona Silk mysteries, the first of which,
Lament for a Lounge Lizard
, was shortlisted at the 2004 Arthurs for Best Novel.

Mary Jane Maffini resides in Ottawa, Ontario.

Also by Mary Jane Maffini

LAMENT FOR A LOUNGE LIZARD
A Fiona Silk Mystery

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. 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 of Canada's official languages. Worse, someone's bumping off the other suspects. Can Fiona outwit a murderer in the mood for some serious mischief?

“
stylish and amusing
…” -Maclean's Magazine

“..
as adept at comedy as she is at laying out a tangled crime trail…Maffini surrounds Fiona with memorable
—
but often annoying—friends…Surviving their needs and obsessions is almost as daunting as solving the murder
.”

-Foreword Magazine

$13.95 CDN, $11.95 U.S.    ISBN 1-894917-02-2    280 pages