The Mystery Guest

Molly Gray is Head Maid at the Regency Grand Hotel, and she takes the badge seriously. Every shift she plumps pillows, clears away the guests' secrets and returns each room to perfection.

Then a famous mystery writer, a guest at the hotel, collapses and dies in the grand tea room. Molly has a very unusual mess to deal with. Rumours and suspicion start to move through the corridors, and it becomes plain that the polished surfaces of the hotel hide something dirtier.

Molly believes she is the only person who can solve the puzzle. Doing so means going back over her past, including her memories of Gran and everything else she has long kept stored away. The dead man was no stranger to her: she knew him years ago, and he knew her.

This is a hotel-set mystery with a cosy surface and a personal edge. The case is told through Molly's eyes, and the investigation is bound up with what she has tried not to remember. Expect a closed setting, a cast of guests and staff under suspicion, and a heroine whose routines shape how she sees the crime.