Charlotte Adams is a professional organizer. Nothing is out of place in her closets-but her life's a mess. So she's dumped her cheating ex-fiancé, moved back home to Woodbridge, New York, and started making up to-do lists-some of which include solving the occasional murder. Charlotte's new job has her digging through years of accumulated junk to find some important documents. Instead she finds her client, the meanest teacher in town, dead under a pile of the debris that plagued her. And there's no end to the list of suspects-starting with Charlotte herself.

Organize Your Corpses (A Charlotte Adams Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

Maffini, Mary Jane

Contemporary

BERKLEY

After freeing herself of some useless clutter—namely a cheating fiancé—Manhattan financial analyst Charlotte Adams goes home to Woodbridge, New York, to start over as a professional organizer. But she’s learning that foul play can creep into even the most well-ordered life. Charlotte never would have guessed that Emmy Lou Rheinbeck had organizational issues. The dressed-for-success executive has a house that could be featured in a magazine—or so Charlotte thinks until she gets upstairs, where the rooms are overflowing with pastel stuffed animals. Charlotte thinks the collection can be easily tamed, but can’t say the same about Emmy Lou’s neighbor. The disturbed young man and his best friend think nothing of pulling horrible pranks that have Emmy Lou on edge. Charlotte can’t resist helping out, but her efforts result in a bigger mess—one that leads to murder.

The Cluttered Corpse (A Charlotte Adams Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Nothing makes Charlotte Adams happier than freeing people from clutter-and she boasts a waiting list of sloppy clients. Her free time has been taken up solving fatally untidy cases. Her latest task: a woman has hired her to organize a coworker's hopelessly cluttered desk. But when the miss behind the mess goes missing, workplace tempers rise. Now, Charlotte must open a brand-new folder-one she hopes won't be filed under M for murder.

Death Loves a Messy Desk (Charlotte Adams, Book 3)

Fourth in the series featuring organizer and amateur sleuth Charlotte Adams, following Death Loves a Messy Desk. A friend hires Charlotte to organize her closets and prove that her daughter's accident was murder. And now Charlotte has to get a house-and her suspects-in order.

Closet Confidential (A Charlotte Adams Mystery)

Mona Pringle, the local 911 operator, is calling Charlotte Adams with her own emergency: Serena Redding, a high school "mean girl" who used to torment Mona, is coming back for a reunion. When Mona talks about how good it would feel to kill Serena, Charlotte doesn't believe she means it. But when a woman who looks like Serena is killed in a hit- and-run, and another former mean girl is also run down, Charlotte realizes she needs to look both ways for the now-missing Mona.

The Busy Woman's Guide to Murder (A Charlotte Adams Mystery)

United States

Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, although she runs a law office specializing in Justice for Victims of violent crimes. However, her uneasy association with the world of crime takes a bizarre turn when a vicious, vindictive fashion columnist with underworld connections named Mitzi Brochu is crucified in a downtown hotel room. The problem is that Camilla’s best friend Robin was on her way to meet the victim, and has become the main suspect. Camilla sets out to vindicate her friend, but finding the real killer isn’t easy, as just about anyone among the politicians and supermodels skewered by Mitzi’s rapier wit could be said to have had ample motive. The investigation turns dangerous, as Camilla receives cryptic warnings while following a grisly killer’s trail marked by more murders of humans and felines. The cast of characters includes a sleazy rock promoter, a nosy, sherry-mad old lady, a suave but mysterious hotel manager, a grumpy Mountie, and several manipulative sisters in this seriously funny first mystery novel by Mary Jane Maffini.

Speak Ill of the Dead: A Camilla MacPhee Mystery (A Camilla MacPhee Mystery, 1)

Genre Fiction

Napoleon and Co

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 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.

The Icing on the Corpse: A Camilla MacPhee Mystery (Camilla MacPhee Mysteries)

Humor & Satire

Rendezvous Press

In the third Camilla MacPhee Mystery, Camilla’s looking forward to cutting loose at Ottawa’s Bluesfest, the huge open-air extravaganza, and to seeing the tail end of her annoying office assistant, Alvin, who is finally quitting. Then the news comes from the East Coast. Alvin’s younger brother Jimmy has vanished from the midst of a Canada Day crowd in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Is he dead? Has he been abducted? Sleuthing irritably about Sydney on Alvin’s behalf, Camilla manages to make the usual quota of people froth at the mouth, including Jimmy’s frantic family, forlorn friends and puzzled teachers. She doesn’t spare the parish priest or even the guy at the chip stand. Before Camilla knows it, all roads lead back to Ottawa, where a killer with everything to lose waits to create havoc among the tents, guitar-pickers and happy, swaying crowds. If Camilla doesn’t sort out this whole mess, how many other people are going to die?

Little Boy Blues: A Camilla MacPhee Mystery (A Camilla MacPhee Mystery, 3)

Organize Your Corpses (Wheeler Large Print Cozy Mystery)

Wheeler Pub Inc

After freeing herself of some useless clutter—namely a cheating fiancé—Manhattan financial analyst Charlotte Adams goes home to Woodbridge, New York, to start over as a professional organizer. But she’s learning that foul play can creep into even the most well-ordered life.   Charlotte never would have guessed that Emmy Lou Rheinbeck had organizational issues. The dressed-for-success executive has a house that could be featured in a magazine—or so Charlotte thinks until she gets upstairs, where the rooms are overflowing with pastel stuffed animals. Charlotte thinks the collection can be easily tamed, but can’t say the same about Emmy Lou’s neighbor. The disturbed young man and his best friend think nothing of pulling horrible pranks that have Emmy Lou on edge. Charlotte can’t resist helping out, but her efforts result in a bigger mess—one that leads to murder.

The Cluttered Corpse (Wheeler Large Print Cozy Mystery)

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