The Maids

For fans of 2018’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, I give you The Maid by Nita Prose. Protagonist Molly Gray is also ... different. She’s exceedingly good at her job as a maid at the high-end Regency Grand Hotel, where her daily goal is to return each room to “a state of perfection.” But she sees the world as very black and white. To the reader, she’s clearly on the spectrum, although most of her co-workers just think she’s kind of weird. That outsider status makes her an easy target for being taken advantage of by so-called friends, as she gets sucked into a murder mystery at the hotel. But, as in Eleanor Oliphant, there is so much more to Molly than what co-workers and hotel guests see on the surface. And as Molly slowly reveals her back story, the reader is soon rooting for her story’s ending to be perfection.