Nilufer Ozmekik's Reviews > The Maid

Don’t you dare to miss this book and celebrate its publishing day! This is FREAKING GOOD! 🥳🍾🎈

This is fabulous! Absolutely marvelous! Entertaining, smart, riveting combination of cozy mystery, dark comedy and thriller with intriguing whodunnit vibes!

And the most amazing news I got is this brilliant debut will be adapted into movies and one of my favorite actresses Florence Pugh will play Molly! Yesssssssss! They couldn’t make a better choice!

Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you one of the most unique, original, quirky character you’ve ever met! Molly the Maid! She was one of a kind!

Molly, 25 years old, proud maid of 5 star boutique hotel Regency Boutique Hotel, having poor social skills, struggling to interpret the people’s intentions which puts her in awkward situations.

The people call her Molly The Mutant, Roomba the Robot, The Formality Freak behind her back.
But she keeps her head high as her lovely Gran- her only family who raised and took care of her- told and doing meticulous, impeccable job. Her fixation to clean things till they glow help her exceed the expectations of her employers!

Everyday of work is joy to her. She loves cleaning, she loves her maid’s trolley and she loves her uniform. She was born to do this job!

But now her gran passed away. And her Fabarge account was siphoned by a conman. And these are not the worst problems of hers.
She finds the wealthiest and highly important hotel customer Mr. Black lying dead on his bed and she becomes the prime suspect.

How and why? Social disconnected, lonely, good hearted Molly cannot hurt a fly! Yes, she trusted wrong people and believed in their lies. Yes, her peculiar perception misdirected her but she has to find a way to prove her innocence and she has to dig more to find what kind of dangerous operations have been conducting at her work place.

Luckily Columbo episodes she watched with her Gran can help her seeing things at different way to fix the puzzle. And thankfully she loves puzzles way too much!

This is absolute delight, incredible debut, remarkable characterization and well developed, unputdownable story! Molly Gray already became one of my all time favorite characters!

I laughed out loud so much! This is pure joy and great combination of dark comedy and smart mystery! I cannot wait to watch it on the big screen! And I cannot wait to read future works of Nina Prose! She has one of the brilliant minds with excellent story telling skills!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group/ Ballentine for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.