« Je suis votre femme de chambre. J'en sais tellement sur vous. Mais en fin de compte, vous : que savez-vous vraiment de moi ? » Bienvenue au prestigieux hôtel Regency Grand, avec ses tapis de velours rouge, ses dorures et ses employés plus rocambolesques les uns que les autres. La jeune Molly, discrète, solitaire et zélée, y travaille comme femme de chambre et en connaît tous les recoins. Un jour, elle trouve la richissime Mme Black dans sa suite, paniquée, aux côtés du corps sans vie de son mari - une pagaille bien compliquée à ordonner. Mêlée malgré elle à cette étrange affaire de meurtre, Molly mène l'enquête, aidée de quelques précieux collègues et amis. Elle va alors découvrir que, derrière la magnifique façade, le Regency Grand cache bien des secrets.Lecture douillette assurée. Page des libraires.Ce polar bien ficelé se dévore d'une traite. Châtelaine.Traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Estelle Roudet.
« On peut dissimuler la vérité un certain temps, mais elle ne restera pas enfouie pour toujours. »
Molly Gray est une femme de chambre tout sauf ordinaire. Grâce à son souci du détail et sa maîtrise des bonnes manières, elle a gravi les échelons au sein du somptueux hôtel Regency Grand. Mais sa vie est bouleversée lorsque J.D. Grimthorpe, illustre auteur de polars, tombe raide mort en plein milieu du salon de thé de l'établissement.
Alors que l'affaire menace la réputation du Regency Grand, et que tous les employés sont des suspects, Molly se rend compte qu'elle a un lien important avec la victime. La clé de cette énigme se trouve nichée dans son passé, à l'époque où, enfant, elle accompagnait sa grand-mère dans le mystérieux manoir des Grimthorpe...
Afin d'aider ses amis, de sauver l'hôtel et d'empêcher un nouveau drame, Molly va se lancer corps et âme dans cette nouvelle enquête haute en couleur !
Bibliothèques anciennes, manuscrits en pagaille et machine à écrire... Molly, la femme de chambre, s'immisce dans le monde de la littérature.
Molly the maid is all alone in the world. A nobody. She's used to being invisible in her job at the Regency Grand Hotel, plumping pillows and wiping away the grime, dust and secrets of the guests passing through. She's just a maid - why should anyone take
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Molly Gray has risen through the ranks to become Head Maid at the esteemed Regency Grand Hotel. She owes her penchant for polishing to her beloved Gran - a maid who passed on every cleaning tip she knew. But there's more to Gran's story than Molly once thought. In the pages of a diary, kept under lock and key, Molly discovers a past blotted with secrets.
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Molly Gray wears her Head Maid badge proudly for every shift at the Regency Grand Hotel, plumping pillows, sweeping up the guests'' secrets, silently restoring rooms to a state of perfection.
But when a renowned guest - a famous mystery writer - drops very dead in the grand tea room, Molly has an unusual clean-up on her hands.
As rumours and suspicion swirl in the hotel corridors, it''s clear there''s grime lurking beneath the gilt. And Molly knows that she alone holds the key to the mystery. But unlocking it means thinking about the past, about Gran, and everything else she''s kept tidied away in her memory for so long.
Because Molly knew the dead guest once upon a time - and he knew her . . .
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Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J. D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead-very dead-on the hotel's tearoom floor.
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As the high-profile death threatens the hotel's pristine reputation, Molly knows she alone holds the key to unlocking the killer's identity. But that key is buried deep in her past, as long ago, she knew J. D. Grimthorpe. Molly begins to comb her memory for clues, revisiting her childhood and the mysterious Grimthorpe mansion where she and her dearly departed Gran once worked side by side. With the entire hotel under investigation, Molly must solve the mystery posthaste. Because if there's one thing she knows for sure, it's that secrets don't stay buried forever.
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