The Maid's Diary - Book Review

I recently read The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White.  It was a "amazon's first" offering that interested me and, unlike most of the books I get from there, I actually read it.  Here is the amazon blurb on it:

Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl,” compelled to poke into her wealthy clients’ closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple—who might kill to keep their secret—dangerous to Kit.

When homicide cop Mallory Van Alst is called to a scene at a luxury waterfront home known as the Glass House, she’s confronted with evidence of a violent attack so bloody it’s improbable the victim is alive. But there’s no body. The homeowners are gone. And their maid is missing. The only witness is the elderly woman next door, who woke to screams in the night. The neighbor was also the last person to see Kit Darling alive.

As Mal begins to uncover the secret that has sent the lives of everyone involved on a devious and inescapable collision course, she realizes that nothing is quite as it seems. And no one escapes their past.

 

That blurb got my attention but the writing made me not want to put the book down - I wanted to know what happened next!  I needed to know how it played out.  I started the book late one day and finished it the next day.

Funnily enough, there was one point where I had this wild thought about what was going on but quickly dismissed it as too farfetched.  But wouldn't you know it, that was what was going on!  Normally, if I can guess what's going on and I have even the faintest thought that it's farfetched, that would put me off but the author so skillfully wrote the story in a way that made it believable and not as farfetched as you might have thought - or as I had thought.  It's funny how that works, isn't it?

I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone looking for an unexpected mystery / thriller.  I don't think you'll be disappointed.  :)