“It’s always the maid”
Even if you believe the above statement, this book still leaves you with a host of possible suspects. Molly is back in this sequel to The Maid, but this time there are other maids on the shift as well. She is joined by a new maid-in-training called Lily, her old nemesis Cheryl, hotel room cleaners Sunshine and Sunitha, and of course her dear grandmother, now passed on but still hugely influential. Gran taught Molly everything she knows about being a maid.
Molly has been promoted to Head Maid at the Regency Grand Hotel, a position which she worked hard for and relishes. Working under the former head maid (slovenly Cheryl) was challenging but now everything seems just as it should be, until it isn’t. Molly’s life is turned upside down once again when world-renowned mystery author J.D. Grimthorpe drops dead–very dead–on the hotel’s tea room floor, just before he is about to publicly reveal a profound secret.
The story goes back and forth between Present Day and Before. No one knows it yet, but Molly and Grimthorpe have met before, a fact she is reluctant to share because it might make her even more of a suspect than she already is. I loved the flashbacks where Molly ends up in the Grimthorpe mansion and I didn’t mind the backstory at all. Molly notices things, and it behooves the reader to pay attention as well.
In this series, Nita Prose has created a cozy mystery around a character that you can’t help but root for. Molly is neurodivergent and because of her communication challenges, she is often misunderstood. Because she is a maid, she is also often overlooked. But do not underestimate her!
It’s weird. Clichés usually bother me in books, but not when it comes to Molly. The catchy sayings she lives by are important to her, so that makes them ok with me. I hope there will be more stories from the Regency Grand Hotel in future! I would suggest reading these books in order.
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