I couldn't put this book down but can't tell you why. The writing isn't brilliant. It feels like a mystery but some things are pretty predictable. I think it is just because you really want Molly to win. Molly is a maid at the Regency Hotel - a job she loves. Molly has always been "different" - "on the spectrum" maybe. Life can be mostly negotiated using the rules laid down by the boss she admires and her gran who has been her guiding light all of her life. The death of her gran has made her life lonely and difficult but it is the shock of finding one of the hotel's residents dead in his bed that sets her life spinning. Molly's very literal interpretation of the world makes her the prime suspect and you, as the reader, just keep pulling for her - ready to throw the book across the room if the world doesn't make this right. Reader Alert - I was able to return the book to the library unharmed.
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