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1) The maid
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"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...
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"When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty."--
Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J.D. Grimthorpe, the...
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Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 4
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English
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Lady PI Callahan Garrity of Atlanta is hired to find a singer for a group planning a comeback after their manager dropped them. Garrity finds the singer, gun in hand, next to the body of the manager. Only she's too drunk to have done it.
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Every night, she cleans. On the fourth floor of an unnamed office in an unnamed city, the night cleaner comes and does what she does best--sorts out the messes of the daytime employees. None of them know her, but she knows everything about them: Sad Intern's dreams to get promoted, Résumé Woman's nasty flight-risk behavior, Mr. Buff's secret smoking habit...After all, protecting the employees is her responsibility: whether it's from rats and window...
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2015.
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English
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"Old rivalries never die. But some rivals do. Juliet Townsend is used to losing. Back in high school, she lost every track team race to her best friend, Madeleine Bell. Ten years later, she's still running behind, stuck in a dead-end job cleaning rooms at the Mid-Night Inn, a one-star motel that attracts only the cheap or the desperate. But what life won't provide, Juliet takes. Then one night, Maddy checks in. Well-dressed, flashing a huge diamond...
6) Hotel 21
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Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Noelle is an efficient, friendly hotel cleaner--a model employee. Or so she'd have you think . . . trouble is, she can't help but take little "souvenirs" from the rooms she cleans. Nothing of value--a lipstick, a hair clip, some tweezers. By the time the guest has noticed, she's long gone. As Noelle begins work at her twenty-first hotel, she's determined to last longer than her record of one month in the job. But then she meets her new colleagues....
7) Carpet diem
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Now that Tallie Graver's cleaning business is starting to shine, she's ready to go squeegee to squeegee against Audra McNeal for a major contract at the Astercromb mansion. Tallie's not afraid of a little friendly competition from the new cleaner in town. In fact, Tallie likes Audra, though she wonders how her glamorous rival manages to clean house and maintain her fancy manicure. Tallie has her rubber-gloves full staying one step ahead of her nemesis....
10) La camarera
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Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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Cuando descubre el cadáver del infame y rico Charles Black en su suite, la mucama del hotel Molly Gray descubre que su vida ordenada se ve alterada cuando se convierte en la principal sospechosa del caso y queda atrapada en una red de engaños que no tiene idea de cómo. desenmarañar.
When she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime...
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 5
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 3
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
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English
15) Sorrow on Sunday
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Lois Meade mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
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English
Description
A struggling single mom takes a job as a chambermaid at a luxury hotel in New York. She meets and falls in love with a suave and sophisticated heir to an American political dynasty, who mistakes her for a society woman. When her real identity is revealed, the reality about their seperate lives sets in.
19) Murder on Monday
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Lois Meade mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
20) Indelicacy
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid,...
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