But what makes The Maid so special is the heartbreak and complexity beneath that. In part, this is a whodunnit cozy mystery, and yes, that’s one good reason to turn the pages. “The truth is,” Molly tells us, “I often have trouble with social situations it’s as though everyone is playing an elaborate game with complex rules they all know, but I’m always playing for the first time.”ĭelightful, charming, endearing, quirky, uplifting-all of these words describe the spirit of this novel and our dear protagonist Molly, one of the most memorable and original characters I’ve read in years. Hours later, kids running wild, I’d been completely swept into the life of Molly the Maid, an eccentric and dedicated employee at the luxurious Regency Grand Hotel, who is coping with the loss of her beloved Gran as she quietly goes about her routine-until she discovers a prestigious guest dead in his hotel room and becomes the easy target of everyone’s suspicion. I made a cup of tea, put on Netflix for the kids (again), and thought I’d try my best to make it through at least a chapter or two… On a particularly exhausting morning, an envelope arrived at the door from my Canadian publisher and inside was a bound manuscript of The Maid, a debut from a fellow Toronto writer that I’d heard a lot about. Over the holidays last year, I was burned out from the pandemic and my reading life was in a rare slump.
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