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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 show more 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.. Non-English Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. show less
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I like the Camilla MacPhee mysteries because there are some stock characters (Alvin and Mrs. Parnell) that you can depend on to add humour and wit to Camilla's predicaments.
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Mary Jane Maffini is the author of several cozy mystery series including Charlotte Adams Mystery Series, Camilla MacPhee Mystery Series, and Fiona Silk Mystery Series. Following a career as a librarian she became co-owner of her favorite bookstore, Prime Crime Mystery Books. Her latest Charlotte Adams book "The Busy Woman's Guide to Murder" won show more the 2012 RT Award for Best amateur Sleuth. Her short fiction has won three Arthur Ellis awards and an Agatha. Mary Jane is a member as well as a former President of Crime Writers of Canada and a former board of directors of the Canadian Booksellers Association. She is a member of Capital Crime Writers and the Ladies Killing Circle. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Icing on the Corpse
- Original publication date
- 2004-06-03
- People/Characters
- Camilla MacPhee
- Important places
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- 44
- Popularity
- 672,167
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.83)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 1
