Title: The Maid’s Secret
Author: Nita Prose
Publication: April 8, 2025
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Genre: Thrillers
Pages: 336

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SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads)

Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and recently promoted Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, good things are just around the corner, including her marriage to her beloved fiancé, Juan Manuel, only two months away. 

But Molly’s entire existence is upended when a film crew descends upon the hotel to shoot the hit reality TV show Hidden Treasures, starring popular art appraisers Brown and Beagle. On a whim, Molly brings in a shoebox containing a few of her gran’s old things for appraisal, and much to everyone’s surprise, one item turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure. Instantly, Molly is both a multi-millionaire and a media sensation—the world’s rags-to-riches darling—until the priceless piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory.

The key to the mystery lies in the past, in a long-forgotten diary written by Molly’s gran. For the first time ever, Molly learns about Gran’s true-to-life fairytale, a young girl to the manor born, the only child of a wealthy magnate. But when Gran falls head over heels in love with a young man her parents deem below her station, her life is thrown into turmoil. As fate would have it, the greatest love of Gran’s life is someone Molly knows quite well….

Together with her friends, Molly combs the past and the present to catch the thief before looming threats against her become real.

REVIEW:

**A copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**

I have been such a fan of Nita Prose’s Molly the Maid series, so I knew I had to read the third installment. As usual, Prose wrote a compelling, but not graphic, mystery that keeps you coming back for more.

Molly is such a fun character to read. Her quirky personality always makes the story flow because you never know quite what she is going to do or how she will react. In this case, we got to read all our favorite characters over the series and learn more about Molly’s past and her grandmother’s past. I love how Prose makes each character unique with layers we get to peel back each chapter. She writes in a way that never gets boring and always leaves me wanting more!

If you haven’t read this entire series, I would strongly recommend it. If you have, but not this one, what are you waiting for? Molly the Maid is the perfect character for a clean but entertaining mystery; you will rarely see the ending coming. An absolute must-read!