The Busy Woman's Guide to Murder

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>Winner of the RT Reviewers Choice Award for Best Amateur Sleuth!</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em> </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong><em>Professional organizer Charlotte Adams has to clean up a mess from the past to stop a killer in the present . . .</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Given the number of times she's dialed 911 in a panic professional organizer Charlotte Adams is more than a little startled when she answers a distress call from the 911 operator herself. Mona's calling to alert her that the mean girls who terrorized her in high school are back and that she wants to wring their necks. Charlotte writes off the threat as angry exaggeration<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</span>until a woman resembling one of the mean girls is killed and Mona goes into hiding.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Worried that some lingering trauma from being bullied may have sent her friend over the edge Charlotte decides she'll have to investigate the murder to find out who's behind it. But then another mean girl is run down and she's certain that <em>someone</em> from the past is settling old scores. Desperate to learn whether Mona is making her revenge fantasies come true or if there's a vindictive killer on the loose Charlotte will have to sort through all the clues to save her friend<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</span>and maybe her own life . . .</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Organizing Tips Included!</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Praise for</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the Books of Mary Jane Maffini: </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A comedic murderous romp . . . Maffini is a relaxed accomplished and wickedly funny writer. -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Montreal Gazette</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mary Jane Maffini provides a first-rate well-organized whodunit . . . A new series that is fun to read. -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Midwest Book Review</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Maffini's new series . . . is off to a brilliant start with this fast-paced mystery! -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Romantic Times</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Deserves top marks for creating an entertaining fast-paced thriller filled with witty one-liners snappy dialogue and crackling suspense. -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Strand Magazine</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'll look forward to a long life for this series. -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Deadly Pleasures</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Plenty of twists and turns that kept me turning the pages until the last sentence. -<em>Dru's Book Musings</em></p><p><br></p>