Mary Jane Maffini is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 mystery

Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...

 writer. She has created three mystery series and written 12 novels.

Ladies Killing Circle & RendezVous Crime anthologies as well as Chatelaine magazine, Storyteller Magazine, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

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 have published her short stories. She has won two Arthur Ellis

Arthur Ellis

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 awards for her short stories.

Biography

Mary Jane Maffini was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia

Sydney, Nova Scotia

Sydney is a Canadian urban community in the province of Nova Scotia. It is situated on the east coast of Cape Breton Island and is administratively part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality....

, and holds a BA (Hons) and a Masters in Library Sciences (MLS) from Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University

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.

She is a member as well as a former President of Crime Writers of Canada

Crime Writers of Canada

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 and a former board of directors member of the Canadian Booksellers Association. She is a member of Capital Crime Writers

Capital Crime Writers

Capital Crime Writers is a non-profit mystery writing organization located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1988 by Linda Wiken and Audrey Jessup.CCW has 90 members....

 and the Ladies Killing Circle.

Maffini is a frequent panellist at mystery conferences such as Bouchercon

Bouchercon

Bouchercon, the Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Convention, is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction. It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor Anthony Boucher....

 and Malice Domestic in the United States and Bloody Words National Mystery Conference in Canada. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

The Charlotte Adams Series

• Closet Confidential May 2010
• Death Loves a Messy Desk May 2009
• The Cluttered Corpse April 2008
• Organize Your Corpses Berkley Prime Crime, May 2007

The Camilla MacPhee series

• Law and Disorder Fall 2009
• The Dead Don't Get Out Much 2005
• The Devil's in the Details 2004
• Little Boy Blues 2002
• The Icing on the Corpse 2001
• Speak Ill of the Dead 1999

Short Fiction/RendezVous Crime Anthologies

• The Ladies Killing Circle
• Cottage Country Killers
• Menopause is Murder
• Cold Blood V
• The Best of Cold Blood
• Over the Edge
• RendezVous Crime anthologies, Fit to Die 2001, Bone Dance 2003 and When Boomers Go Bad 2005.]

Awards

• But the Corpse Can't Laugh Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers' Choice List
• Winner of the Ottawa Citizen
  Ottawa Citizen
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   short story contest for Death Before Doughnuts 1994
• Arthur Ellis Award Best Short Story for Sign of the Times in the anthology Fit to Die 2001
• Arthur Ellis Award Best Short Story for Cotton Armour in the anthology The Ladies Killing Circle, 1995

Nominations

• Speak Ill of the Dead Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis
  Arthur Ellis
  Arthur Ellis may refer to:*Arthur Ayres Ellis* Arthur Edward Ellis, English football referee* Arthur Ellis , English rugby union player* Arthur Ellis , Canadian politician* Arthur B...
  
  Best First novel award
• Kicking the Habit in Menopause is Murder Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis best short story, 1999
• Lament for a Lounge Lizard the first Fiona Silk mystery was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award, 1999
• The Novel The Dead Don't Get out Much was nominated for a Barry Award, 2006

External links

• Official Mary Jane Maffini Website
• Mary Jane Maffini profile, Crime Writers of Canada
• Mary Jane Maffini bio, Napoleon Publishing
• Mary Jane Maffini profile, Capital Crime Writers website