“I am your maid. I’m the one who cleans your hotel room, who enters like a phantom when you’re out gallivanting for the day, no care at all about what you’ve left behind, the mess, or what I might see when you’re gone.”
Molly loves her job as a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel. She loves the opportunity to restore rooms to “a state of perfection.” She prides herself on her work and doesn’t like her lazier colleagues who cut corners or steal her tips.
Molly is different, in that she doesn’t understand visual cues or people’s true intentions. She’s awkward in social situations and has an old-fashioned way of speaking, because her grandmother raised her. Because of this, people make incorrect assumptions about her and take advantage of her good-naturedness.
One day, she finds ultra-rich businessman Mr. Black dead in his hotel room bed. Not long after, because of her odd demeanor and the manipulations of those she thought were her friends, Molly is suspected of the murder. But when a group of friends she didn’t realize she had come to her rescue to try and clear her of the crime, Molly teams up with them to uncover the real culprit.
This book has been all over Bookstagram, and its selection as a Book of the Month pick will increase its exposure. I really enjoyed this, and while sometimes I thought Molly was a tiny bit too quirky for my liking, I loved the message of this book, that you should never make assumptions about a person’s character based on their personality traits.
Couldn’t put The Maid down! (And no, this isn't related to the Netflix series of the same name.)
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