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Maid, The

Quirky Maids and Campy Conundrums Author: Nita Prose Molly the Maid works at the Regency Hotel. Molly is obsessed with rules, with cleanliness, with returning everything to a “state of perfection.” She will literarily miss the elephant in the room because she is busy polishing it. When Molly finds the wealthy Mr. Black dead in his bed, it’s little surprise that she doesn’t get the enormity of what she’s seeing . . . that she even started to clean the crime scene before calling for help. What is a surprise, however, is that the police are focusing in on Molly. As [...]

2023-01-16T11:38:50-07:00January 16th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

Snobs

British Aristocracy, Gold-Digging, and Snobbery in the 90s Author: Julian Fellowes From the author who created Downton Abbey and Gosford Park comes a tail of modern upper-class shenanigans, social climbing, backstabbing, occasional polite witticism, and scandal. In Snobs the drawing rooms and estates are all set against the backdrop of the 1990s. Even ruined aristocrats still hold some clout, and Edith Lavery has been raised to land the wealthiest and (unfortunately for her) dullest of them all. Enter Charles Broughton, the wealthy Marquess of Uckfield. Charles isn’t much to look at, and he certainly isn’t that exciting, but he does [...]

2023-01-15T19:53:13-07:00January 15th, 2023|Tags: , , , |

The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

Spooky Sleuths & Haunted Mystery Author: Alice Kimberly The recently widowed Penelope Thornton-McClure has decided to do what she never could when her husband was alive: run from his opulent and controlling family and start her own life. It’s certainly not easy, nor are her complicated feelings about widowhood. Now that she is in the tiny town of Proofrock, living out her dream of running a bookstore with her Aunt Sadie, she thinks perhaps with time and patience, this new life will help her heal wounds and move on. That is . . . until a famous novelist comes to her [...]

2023-01-14T19:14:05-07:00January 14th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |
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