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Law and Disorder (A Camilla MacPhee Mystery)

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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.

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!!!