Mary Jane Maffini

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Mary Jane Maffini is a Canadian mystery writer. She has crafted three mystery series and written 12 novels.

Biography
Awards
Won
Nominations
Publications
The Charlotte Adams Series
The Camilla MacPhee series
The Fiona Silk Series
Short Fiction/RendezVous Crime Anthologies
References
Sources
External links

The Ladies Killing Circle and RendezVous Crime anthologies feature some of her stories, and Chatelaine, Storyteller, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine have published her short stories. She has won two Arthur Ellis Awards for her short stories.

Biography

Mary Jane Maffini was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and holds a BA (Hons) and a Masters in Library Sciences (MLS) from Dalhousie University.

She is a member as well as a former President of Crime Writers of Canada and a former board of directors member of the Canadian Booksellers Association. She is a member of Capital Crime Writers and the Ladies Killing Circle.

Maffini is a frequent panellist at mystery conferences such as Bouchercon and Malice Domestic in the United States and Bloody Words National Mystery Conference in Canada. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

Awards

Won

But the Corpse Can't Laugh Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers' Choice List
Winner of the Ottawa Citizen 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 Award for Best First novel
Kicking the Habit in Menopause Is Murder Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, 1999
Lament for a Lounge Lizard, nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, 1999
The Dead Don't Get Out Much was nominated for a Barry Award, 2006

Publications

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

The Fiona Silk Series

Too Hot to Handle Fall 2007
Lament for a Lounge Lizard 2003

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.]

References

Sources

External links

v t e Agatha Award winners
Best First Novel	Elizabeth George (1988) Jill Churchill (1989) Katherine Hall Page (1990) Mary Willis Walker (1991) Barbara Neely (1992) Nevada Barr (1993) Jeff Abbott (1994) Jeanne M. Dams (1995) Anne George (1996) Sujata Massey (1997) Robin Hathaway (1998) Donna Andrews (1999) Rosemary Stevens (2000) Sarah Strohmeyer (2001) Julia Spencer-Fleming (2002) Jacqueline Winspear (2003) Harley Jane Kozak (2004) Laura Durham (2005) Sandra Parshall (2006) Hank Phillippi Ryan (2007) G. M. Malliet (2008) Alan Bradley (2009) Avery Aames (2010) Sara J. Henry (2011) Susan M. Boyer (2012) Leslie Budewitz (2013) Terrie Farley Moran (2014) Art Taylor (2015) Cynthia Kuhn (2016) Kellye Garrett (2017) Dianne Freeman and Shari Randall (2018) (tie) Tara Laskowski (2019) Erica Neubauer (2020)
Best Contemporary Novel	Hank Phillippi Ryan (2013) Hank Phillippi Ryan (2014) Margaret Maron (2015) Louise Penny (2016) Louise Penny (2017) Ellen Byron (2018) Ann Cleeves (2019) Louise Penny (2020)
Best Novel	Carolyn G. Hart (1988) Elizabeth Peters (1989) Nancy Pickard (1990) Nancy Pickard (1991) Margaret Maron (1992) Carolyn Hart (1993) Sharyn McCrumb (1994) Sharyn McCrumb (1995) Margaret Maron (1996) Kate Ross (1997) Laura Lippman (1998) Earlene Fowler (1999) Margaret Maron (2000) Rhys Bowen (2001) Donna Andrews (2002) Carolyn Hart (2003) Jacqueline Winspear (2004) Katherine Hall Page (2005) Nancy Pickard (2006) Louise Penny (2007) Louise Penny (2008) Louise Penny (2009) Louise Penny (2010) Margaret Maron (2011) Louise Penny (2012)
Best Historical Novel	Rhys Bowen (2011) Catriona McPherson (2012) Caroline and Charles Todd (2013) Rhys Bowen (2014) Laurie R. King (2015) Catriona McPherson (2016) Rhys Bowen (2017) Sujata Massey (2018) Edith Maxwell (2019) Rhys Bowen (2020)
Best Non-Fiction	Barbara D'Amato (1993) Jean Swanson and Dean James (1994) Alzina Stone Dale (1995) Willeta L. Heisin (1996) Willeta L. Heisin (1997) Alzina Stone Dale (1998) Daniel Stashower (1999) Jim Huang (2000) Tony Hillerman (2001) Jim Huang (2002) Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread (2003) Jack French (2004) Melanie Rehak (2005) Chris Roerden (2006) Jon Lellenberg (2007) Kathy Lynn Emerson (2008) Elena Santangelo (2009) John Curran (2010) Leslie Budewitz (2011) John Connolly (2012) Daniel Stashower (2013) Hank Phillippi Ryan (2014) Martin Edwards (2015) Jane K. Cleland (2016) Mattias Bostrom (2017) Jane Cleland (2018) Mo Moulton (2019) Christina Lane (2020)
Best Short Story	Robert Barnard (1988) Sharyn McCrumb (1989) Joan Hess (1990) Margaret Maron (1991) Aaron Elkins and Charlotte Elkins (1992) M. D. Lake (1993) Dorothy Cannell (1994) Elizabeth Daniels (1995) Carolyn Wheat (1996) M. D. Lake (1997) Barbara D'Amato (1998) Nancy Pickard (1999) Jan Burke (2000) Katherine Hall Page (2001) Margaret Maron and Marcia Talley (2002) Elizabeth Foxwell (2003) Elaine Viets (2004) Marcia Talley (2005) Toni Kelner (2006) Donna Andrews (2007) Dana Cameron (2008) Hank Phillippi Ryan (2009) Mary Jane Maffini (2010) Dana Cameron (2011) Dana Cameron (2012) Art Taylor (2013) Art Taylor (2014) Barb Goffman (2015) Art Taylor (2016) Gigi Pandian (2017) Leslie Budewitz and Tara Laskowski (2018) (tie) Shawn Reilly Simmons (2019) Barb Goffman (2020)
Best Young Adult Mystery	Cindy Callaghan (2018)
Best Children/ Young Adult Fiction	Penny Warner (2001) Daniel J. Hale & Matthew LaBrot (2002) Kathleen Karr (2003) Blue Balliett (2004) Peter Abrahams (2005) Nancy Means Wright (2006) Sarah Masters Buckey (2007) Chris Grabenstein (2008) Chris Grabenstein (2009) Sarah Smith (2010) Chris Grabenstein (2011) Penny Warner (2012) Chris Grabenstein (2013) Penny Warner (2014) Amanda Flower (2015) Penny Warner (2016) Cindy Callaghan (2017) Frances Schoonmaker (2019) Richard Narvaez (2020)
Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement	Phyllis A. Whitney (1990) Mignon G. Eberhart (1994) Mary Stewart (1996) Emma Lathen (1997) Charlotte MacLeod (1998) Patricia Moyes (1999) Dick Francis (2000) Mildred Benson (2001) Tony Hillerman (2002) Barbara Mertz, Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels (2003) Marian Babson (2004) H.R.F. Keating (2005) Robert Barnard (2006) Carolyn Hart (2007) Peter Lovesey (2008) Anne Perry (2009) Mary Higgins Clark (2010) Sue Grafton (2011) Simon Brett (2012) Aaron Elkins (2013) Dorothy Cannell, Joan Hess and Margaret Maron (2014) Sara Paretsky (2015) Katherine Hall Page (2016) Charlaine Harris (2017) Nancy Pickard (2018)
Malice Domestic Poirot Award	David Suchet (2003) Ruth Cavin (2004) Angela Lansbury (2005) Douglas G. Greene (2006) Janet Hutchings and Linda Landrigan (2008) Kate Stine and Brian Skupin (2009) William Link (2010) Janet Rudolph (2011) Lee Goldberg (2012) Tom Schantz (2014) Barbara G. Peters (2016) Martin Edwards (2017) Brenda Blethyn (2018)

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