Happy New Year! I’m so glad that I can share a delightful book as my first post for 2023!

Molly Gray is a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel. She is fastidious and meticulous and a stickler for proper etiquette. She is in many ways the ideal person for the job, however, she has trouble reading people and finds social interactions a bit challenging. Her grandmother had been the one who helped her understand people but she passed away months ago and Molly, now twenty-five, is on her own.

On this particular day, Molly donned her uniform, organized and restocked her cart and headed out to her assigned rooms. Today she was to clean the suite where the hotel’s valued guests, the Blacks, were staying. But as soon as Molly entered the room she knew there was something terribly wrong. Lying on the bed was Mr. Black, and he was definitely dead. Soon she is talking to police, but her unusually stiff  and unemotional demeanor and her inability to read cues, begins to arouse the suspicions of the police. Luckily, she has a few friends who rally around her and together they try to figure out how Mr. Black died and who was responsible for his death before the police can charge Molly with murder.

This was such a wonderful book. Although the plot centers around a murder, there is so much more to this book. Molly is a delightful character and her just slightly off understandings of the world and her unusual interactions with others become wonderful insights. Her friends rally around her in such a heartwarming way, and still let her true nature shine through. It was wonderful to start the New Year with such a feel good book! 

Brenda’s Rating: *****  (5 Out of 5 Stars)

Recommend this book to Lauren, Marian, Sharon and Keith

Book Study Worthy? Yes

Read in e-library format.