The Maid's Diary

Kit Darling cleans houses for a living, and in every house she cleans she searches. Drawers, medicine cabinets and letters all get her attention, and she records what she finds in a diary. By her own account, nobody is harmed by it.

Her newest clients are a wealthy couple awaiting the birth of their first child. In their home Kit turns up something she cannot return to its place and cannot forget: a secret big enough to ruin them both.

Then Kit vanishes. An elderly woman living next door was the final person to see her, and she remembers waking in the night to screams. The story comes through three accounts: Kit's diary, the investigator working the case, and the couple themselves.

The three versions of events line up for a while, and the suspense comes from the point where they no longer agree. Which voice deserves trust is the open question, and the confessional diary sits at the centre of that doubt.