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"Great fun." --The Globe and Mail
"Camilla is as smart as she is disorganized, and by the end of this frequently laugh-out-loud book, we know whodunit and the surprising reason why." --Mystery Scene
"Camilla is as smart as she is disorganized, and by the end of this frequently laugh-out-loud book, we know whodunit and the surprising reason why." --Mystery Scene
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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. She’s 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.
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Camilla MacPhee Rules!,
By Gloria Ferris (Guelph, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Law and Disorder: A Camilla MacPhee Mystery (Perfect Paperback)
In Law and Disorder, someone is killing lawyers and the invincible Camilla MacPhee is up to her neck in trouble again in this sixth installment of the series. The plot twists keep coming right until the very last page. But, with Alvin and Mrs. Parnell by her side, Camilla manages to escape death once again and save her boyfriend's daughters from watery graves. As a bonus, the lawyer jokes heading each chapter will keep you in stitches. Mary Jane Maffini has a winner in Camilla and I hope to read many more adventures of the fearless Ottawa lawyer who just never gives up.
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A Delightfully Funny Mystery,
By Cindy Chow - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Law and Disorder: A Camilla MacPhee Mystery (Perfect Paperback)
Everyone loves a dead lawyer joke. Until real lawyers end up dead.
Ottawa victim's advocate attorney Camilla MacPhee was anxiously awaiting the conviction of Lloyd Brugel, especially after her client committed suicide soon after testifying and being grilled by Brugel's sleazy lawyer, Rollie Thorsten. When Thorsten turns up shot dead and dumped in the Rideau River, Camilla assumes that it's just another way of Brugel delaying his court sentence. She changes her mind when her favorite client, reformed art thief Bunny Mayhew, turns up on her doorstep with the news that he's been receiving letters containing lawyer jokes, followed by notes naming a recently deceased attorney. Due to the easily distracted and borderline incompetent assistant her father saddled with her with, Camilla discovers that she also had unknowingly been receiving the same "warnings." When the police disregard her suspicions, Camilla recruits her computer savvy senior citizen friend to help investigate and prevent further deaths. Her assistant Alvin Ferguson both aids and hinders her as he prepares for the arrival of Camilla's boyfriends daughters, whom Camilla was unaware would be staying at her house. A bulldog of a real estate agent, determined to help Camilla sell an unwanted inheirtence, adds complications as Camilla attempts to discover what ties all of the deceased attorneys together and who may have it in for her, her client, and the law profession. A hilarious contrast to the morose, disillusioned, lawyers of John Grisham, Camilla proves to be a delightful, impetuous, impulsive, and occasionally irrational character who bulldozes her way through in order to help her friends. A short, dark, changeling in a family of tall, svelte, blonde, sisters, Camilla dodges their attempts to meddle in her life as she copes with the arrival of her love interest's daughters who also have a history of interference. The characters and intricate plot keep the pace of the novel moving quickly, and a rather unorthodox observation by Camilla provides her with a completely unexpected solution. This fourth in the Camilla MacPhee series will have readers eager for the next, if only to see if her life will ever get less complicated.
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Another brilliant entry.....,
By Susan "loverofbooks" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Law and Disorder: A Camilla MacPhee Mystery (Perfect Paperback)
into our hero, Camilla MacPhee, her family, friends, et al....I just finished this and couldn't wait to go online to rave!! I have followed Camilla from the first book in this series; each book just keeps on getting better than the previous one.
I truly can't wait for the next Camilla adventure into murder and mayhem!! There's been enough said re the plot, so please allow me this: If you enjoy a strong female character, quirky in so many ways, I know you'll love Camilla MacPhee. Surrounding that character are so many others with quirks of their own, plot lines that take your breath away (read that to mean, panting for next title), and of course, the joyous ending, take advantage of buying this series from the first title, "Speak Ill of the Dead", reading them in order (personally important to me) and sit back and enjoy the ride!!! |
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