"Justice is like truth---it, too, is subjective. So many of those who deserve to be punished never receive their just desert, and in the meantime, good people, decent people, are charged with the wrong crimes. It's a flawed system---justice---a dirty, messy, imperfect system. But if the good people accept personal responsibility for exacting justice, would we not have a better chance of cleaning the entire world, of holding the liars, the cheaters, the users, and the abusers to account?" -from the novel
Protagonist and narrator Molly Gray is a maid at the illustrious Regency Grand Hotel. She is naive and somewhat gullible with odd mannerisms that keep her distanced from her peers and she is so fastidious about her work that the other maids are either suspicious or jealous. Also Molly is grieving the passing of her adored grandmother and feeling lonely as she is living alone for the first time in her young life.
When a guest, Mr. Black, is found dead in his bed in one of Molly's assigned rooms, she is an easy target for a murder charge although she is completely innocent. Can she help find the true criminal?
The Maid was the Page Turners' selection for November. I am rating it a 4. I liked it but maybe not enough to read further in the Molly the Maid series.
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