Mary Jane Maffini

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.

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

• 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

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

• 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.]

• 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

• 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 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

• The Writers Union Profile of Mary Jane Maffini
• Ottawa Public Library Notes from the Ottawa Room regarding local author Mary Jane Maffini
• Arthur Ellis Awards for Best Crime Novel 2004
• CBC Radio Canada, Mary Jane Maffini appearance on All in a Day with host Adrian Harewood

• Official Mary Jane Maffini Website
• Mary Jane Maffini profile^{[permanent dead link‍]}, Crime Writers of Canada
• Mary Jane Maffini bio, Napoleon Publishing
• Mary Jane Maffini profile, Capital Crime Writers website