A Camilla MacPhee Mystery
6 primary works • 7 total works
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Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
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. Her uneasy association with the world of crime takes a bizarre turn when a vicious fashion columnist with underworld connections is crucified in a downtown hotel room.
Camilla's looking forward to cutting loose at Bluesfest, Ottawa's huge open-air extravaganza, and to seeing the tail-end of her annoying office assistant, Alvin, who is finally quitting. Then news comes from the East Coast. Alvin's younger brother has vanished in the midst of a Canada Day crowd in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Is he dead?
Remembrance Day is a proud day for Camilla MacPhee's good friend, Mrs. Violet Parnell, one of five thousand Canadian women to go overseas during World War II. But the next day she has vanished. Camilla, with only a few letters and documents to guide her, follows her friend to Tuscany, chasing though historic towns, across high promontories and along steep mountain roads. Vanishing old partisans and Allied aircraft crash sites keep Camilla hopping as she tries to find Mrs. P. before someone with a deadly serious reason to keep the past hidden finds her first. The fifth Camilla MacPhee takes the irascible Ottawa lawyer's adventures to an exotic new locale, with the usual murderous results.
Victims' advocate Camilla MacPhee is following the trial of a ruthless criminal charged with a fatal firebombing.But when his sleazy counsel is found dead, it delays the proceedings. She soon learns the victim was not the only member of the legal profession whose death was heralded by a tasteless attempt at humour.