Out this Week: The Maid sequel

We’re really into the run in to Christmas now and new releases are getting a little thin, so I was surprised to see that the sequel to Nita Prose’s buzzy hit The Maid was coming out in the US this week, but it is – although if you’re in the UK you have to wait until January. In The Mystery Guest, Molly is now head maid at the Regency Grand, but murder comes back into her life again when a famous author drops dead in his hotel suite and the hotel staff comes under suspicion. When I read The Maid last year, I thought that Molly was an interesting narrator, where the reader can see things that she doesn’t, and I was relieved when she was still the same person at the end of the book (if that makes sense), so I’ll be interested to see if that can translate into a sequel. The Maid got a really wide release, so I suspect this one will be easy to find if you want it.