I’ve been reading mysteries lately. One that has been on my list for a while is The Maid by Nita Prose.
Molly Gray is a young maid at the Regency Grand Hotel. She loves her job because it plays to her strengths, a passion for order and cleanliness and a minimum of interaction with people. Molly has difficulty interpreting social cues. Since the recent death of her grandmother, who raised her, Molly has had no meaningful interaction with anyone at all.
Still, she takes comfort in her routines at the hotel. Until she enters the room of a Mr. Black (a very unsavory character) and finds him dead in his bed.
Molly’s penchant for saying the wrong things and her desperate desire for friendship and perhaps even love lead her to unwise decisions. She ends up framed for the murder. She’ll need the help of true friends to unravel the mystery and save her from prison.
The novel turns on the out-of-step-with-the-world, poignant voice of the well-intentioned Molly. Loose ends are tied up in a somewhat unconvincing way, but the novel is nevertheless an engrossing read.
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