A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut.
Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misinterprets the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could l...
A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut.
Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misinterprets the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.
Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has had to navigate life’s complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.
But Molly’s orderly life is turned on its head the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself very dead in his bed. Before she knows what’s happening, Molly’s unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black—but will they be able to find the real killer before it’s too late?
A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.
Nita Prose is a longtime editor, serving many bestselling authors and their books. She lives in Toronto, Canada, in a house that is only moderately clean.
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But perhaps my favorite part of the lobby is the olfactory sensation, that first redolent breath as I take in the scent of the hotel itself at the start of every shift—the melange of ladies’ fine perfumes, the dark musk of the leather armchairs, the tangy zing of lemon polish that’s used twice daily on the gleaming marble floors. It is the very scent of esprit. It is the fragrance of life itself. (查看原文)
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0 有用 威武大将军朱寿 2022-02-09 09:31:28
好看！！！！
0 有用 Zing' 2022-04-22 01:02:16
别名Gran’s Almanack. 前面制造的气氛把expectation拉太高 最后是有反转但硬拗women help women也是很没意思. 下周读书会讲这我看看如何收敛我的吐槽
0 有用 ZZ 2022-01-20 08:44:29
最后的结尾和开头遥相呼应。
2 有用 DONT_BOTHER 2022-03-16 00:48:39
不好看啊，看的过程很煎熬，考验人耐心的一本书。最后的小反转又有点让我觉得Molly前后非常莫名其妙。happy ending，而死的人该死，这什么正义审判啊……呵呵了。以后再也别让我看到bad egg这个词了。
1 有用 六月離夏 2022-02-07 05:04:07
没看之前以为是自闭神探女仆的大杀特杀，看到一半以为是律师的大杀特杀，看到结尾，好吧作者你开心就好。前半内容冗长乏味，后半倒是节奏起来之后感觉紧凑精彩了些许。supporting characters过于完美，主线简单，情感建立迅速且缺乏基础，当然你非要用结局那个反转说所有背叛和反转全部都是女仆计划好的那我也没什么好讲的。