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THE MYSTERY GUEST
Nita Prose
Penguin Random House Canada
November 28, 2023
304 pages
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Once again I meet Molly the Maid, the main character from a book I read a couple years ago. And, once again there is a murder in the hotel where Molly works. This time it is a famous author, on the verge of revealing something important. She is now the head housekeeper and married. Molly is on the spectrum. She has the vocabulary and knowledge of a genius but the social acumen of a child. She has a very literal and linear mind.
To be honest, the very personality traits that endeared Molly to me in the first book, felt annoying during the first part of this story. My first thought was “here we go again.” But it does not take me long to get immersed into Molly’s life and once again I start to enjoy her logical way of thinking and the fact that she is very observant. There is a lot of back story of her life with her Grandmother, which I enjoyed.
Being a cozy mystery, I love the fact that everyone came together to solve the murder. A team effort, with Molly as the leader. It is all done with reasoning and logical thinking, similar to Murder She Wrote. There is no violence or blood and gore.
There was a surprise revealed at the end, which made me feel all fuzzy for Molly. And there is also a very open-ended finale to the story!
And, the same areas in the first book, my favourite quote remains: We are all the same in different ways.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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