Closet Confidential

By Mary Jane Maffini

Fourth in the series featuring organizer and amateur sleuth Charlotte Adams, following Death Loves a Messy Desk. A friend hires Charlotte to organize her closets and prove that her daughter's accident was murder. And now Charlotte has to get a house-and her suspects-in order.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Release date: Jul 6, 2010
• ISBN: 9781101188590

Mary Jane Maffini

Mary Jane Maffini is a lapsed librarian and a mystery addict. Author of six Camilla MacPhee mysteries, two Fiona Silk adventures, five Charlotte Adams books, and nearly two dozen short stories. She holds two Arthur Ellis Awards for best mystery short story, as well as the Derrick Murdoch lifetime achievement award. Speak Ill of the Dead was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel and Lament for a Lounge Lizard for best novel. She lives and plots in Ottawa.

Reviews for Closet Confidential

[cyderry · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Charlotte Adams is a professional organizer which sounds like such a fun job, taking someone's clutter and making it better - eliminating the unnecessary and putting it neatly away. This time Charlotte is called upon by a friend of her mother to re-organize 7 custom closets that are filled with design clothes. But there is a snag - the client's daughter died recently in an accident and isn't in the mood to go through anything, she just wants to have her daughter's death declared a murder.Charlotte is asked to investigate the death proving that it was an accident, but was it really? At the same time as Charlotte is trying to complete this multi-closet project, she also works on a mini project - a homemaker has been gifted $100 by her husband and sons to have her closet made-over. The two clients are as different as night and day - one indifferent the other as enthusiastic as can be.Will Charlotte manage to make both clients happy?This series is filled with tips to organize your own life as well as a fun mystery!

[jetangen4571 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

amateur-sleuth, cozy-mystery, dachshunds, family, family-dynamics, friendship, investigation, law-enforcement, relationship-issues, situational-humor, small-town, verbal-humor, organize, framed, small-business*****Did she fall or was she pushed? Follow the twists and red herrings to find out! The publisher's blurb is a good hook and I find myself WAAAY too tempted to get into spoiler territory, so I'll just say that no laundry, dishes, or vacuuming got done until AFTER I finished this funny and scary mystery.This is a fully revised edition of a book originally published in 2010.I requested and received a free temporary ebook from Beyond the Page Publishing via NetGalley. Thanks!