She is a member as well as a former President of Crime Writers of Canada and a former board of directors member of the Canadian Booksellers Association. She is a member of Capital Crime Writers and the Ladies Killing Circle.
Maffini is a frequent panellist at mystery conferences such as Bouchercon and Malice Domestic in the United States and Bloody Words National Mystery Conference in Canada. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Publications
The Charlotte Adams Series
Closet Confidential May 2010
Death Loves a Messy Desk May 2009
The Cluttered Corpse April 2008
Organize Your Corpses Berkley Prime Crime, May 2007
The Camilla MacPhee series
Law and Disorder Fall 2009
The Dead Don't Get Out Much 2005
The Devil's in the Details 2004
Little Boy Blues 2002
The Icing on the Corpse 2001
Speak Ill of the Dead 1999
The Fiona Silk Series
Too Hot to Handle Fall 2007
Lament for a Lounge Lizard 2003
Short Fiction/RendezVous Crime Anthologies
The Ladies Killing Circle
Cottage Country Killers
Menopause is Murder
Cold Blood V
The Best of Cold Blood
Over the Edge
RendezVous Crime anthologies, Fit to Die 2001, Bone Dance 2003 and When Boomers Go Bad 2005.]
Awards
But the Corpse Can't Laugh Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers' Choice List
Winner of the Ottawa Citizen short story contest for Death Before Doughnuts 1994
Arthur Ellis Award Best Short Story for Sign of the Times in the anthology Fit to Die 2001
Arthur Ellis Award Best Short Story for Cotton Armour in the anthology The Ladies Killing Circle, 1995
Nominations
Speak Ill of the Dead Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First novel
Kicking the Habit in Menopause is Murder Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis best short story, 1999
Lament for a Lounge Lizard the first Fiona Silk mystery was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award, 1999
The Novel The Dead Don't Get out Much was nominated for a Barry Award, 2006
