"The Maid" by Nita Prose is a cozy mystery novel that revolves around a maid who finds a business tycoon dead during her cleaning duty in a high profile luxury hotel. Molly, the maid who struggles with her cognitive abilities especially relating to sociability finds herself accused of murder.
The novel takes too much time establishing the character of Molly and her condition that it becomes repetitive after a point of time and the suspense around the murder takes a backstage in the first half. The second half of the novel moves at a steady pace with the proceedings building up the suspense, but suffers from inconsistencies in character sketch of Molly.
The well-written courtroom scenes are few sparks of brilliance in an otherwise predictable novel. The climactic end gives us some interesting twists which is a savior. Despite the shortcomings, the novel is still a good read.
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