Maid is a delightful little who-dun-it novel by Nita Prose, which was gifted to me by my mom for Christmas this past year. It certainly fit the bill for a novel that I would normally not give a second look at, given there’s not a single apocalypse, zombie, spaceship or alternate dimension in sight. Instead, it’s a week in the life of Molly the Maid, who proudly and happily toils away at the Regency Grand Hotel. She’s a women to loves cleaning and returning her […]

Do we need to go over the rules again? The Maid is billed and sold as a mystery novel. I suppose that’s because a body is discovered early on and the plot concerns itself with figuring out the who, what, how, and why of the man’s death. But in most other respects it really bears little resemblance to the genre. Our main character is Molly, a young woman reeling from the death of her beloved Gran, who raised her after her mother’s abandonment. Gran understood […]