Book description
One of Canada's best-loved sleuths returns in her sixth hair-raising
adventure. Victims' advocate Camilla MacPhee is following the trial of
Lloyd Brugel, a ruthless criminal kingpin charged with a fatal
firebombing. Shes looking forward to seeing him convicted, but when his
sleazy counsel is found dead, it conveniently delays the proceedings.
The lawyer, no saint himself, was drowned and shot. In case that message
was too subtle, an old joke featuring dead lawyers shows up. Camilla
soon learns the victim was not the only member of the Ottawa legal
profession whose death was heralded by a tasteless attempt at humour. Is
Brugel reaching from behind the bars of the regional detention centre to
manipulate his trial and to exact revenge? Camilla does her stubborn
best to head off the killer, hampered by her annoying assistant, the
police, her bossy sisters and the arrival of her possible
stepdaughters-to-be for the Dragon Boat Races. Mary Jane Maffini is a
lapsed librarian and a mystery addict. She is the author of six Camilla
MacPhee mysteries, two Fiona Silk adventures, five Charlotte Adams
books, and nearly two dozen short stories. She holds two Arthur Ellis
Awards for best mystery short story, as well as the Derrick Murdoch
lifetime achievement award. Speak Ill of the Dead was shortlisted for an
Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel and Lament for a Lounge Lizard
for best novel. Mary Jane lives and plots in Ottawa.
