The Maid

Description

Title: The Maid
Author: Nita Prose
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780008539047

The Maid by Nita Prose is a charming and clever mystery novel set inside the elegant Regency Grand Hotel. It follows Molly Gray, a meticulous hotel maid whose quiet life is turned upside down when she discovers a wealthy guest dead in his room.

Molly takes pride in restoring rooms to perfect order, but people are far harder for her to read. When the police begin treating her unusual manner as suspicious, she finds herself caught in a web of secrets, lies, and misunderstandings she does not know how to untangle.

Blending cosy crime, locked-room mystery, character-driven fiction, and emotional warmth, The Maid is ideal for readers who enjoy page-turning mysteries with distinctive narrators and heart. The story explores loneliness, friendship, trust, difference, and the way people are often underestimated.