The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella (Molly the Maid)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve in this heartwarming novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest. "[Molly is] the most interesting (and endearing) main character in a long time."--Stephen King, on The Maid Molly Gray has always loved the holidays. When Molly was a child, her gran went to great lengths to make the season merry and bright, full of cherished traditions. The first few Christmases without Gran were hard on Molly, but this year, her beloved boyfriend and fellow festive spirit, Juan Manuel, is intent on making the season Molly's mofinst joyful yet. But when a Secret Santa gift exchange at the Regency Grand Hotel raises questions about who Molly can and cannot trust, she dives headfirst into solving her most consequential--and personal--mystery yet. Molly has a bad feeling about things, and she starts to wonder: has she yet again mistaken a frog for a prince? A heartwarming, magical story about the true spirit of the season, The Mistletoe Mystery reminds us that love is the greatest mystery of all.
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I enjoyed the holiday traditions with family passed on through generations and I enjoyed the heart warming family story. The mystery however was obvious
“Have you ever had a day when everything turned upside down and backwards out of nowhere…When everything you knew–or thought you knew–suddenly seemed uncertain?”
“‘It’s Christmas…The time of year to be generous and charitable.’ ‘Even to those who don’t deserve it?’ ‘Especially to them.’” And this year’s Secret Santa theme at the Regency Grand Hotel is right up Molly Gray, Head Maid’s alley: “recycle and reuse…discourage excess consumerism, reward thrift, and promote charity and thoughtfulness at this time of year…Give a gift for the other person, not for yourself. That’s real generosity…And the true spirit of Christmas.” But what is what she thought was generosity is something else entirely?
When her beloved boyfriend/sous chef Juan Manuel begins acting strangely, “Somewhere deep in my chest, my heart protests…pounding against my rib cage–an empty cup clanging against iron bars…If you want to know where someone’s going, watch their feet, not their mouths…Getting lost is the first step to being found…What if I search for evidence that he loves me instead of fixating on the proof that he does not?”
“Most princes turn out to be frogs in really good costumes…We must learn to see past the grime, for what’s beyond it may shine more brightly than any light you could possibly imagine.” With a nod to O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi–in which “nothing goes right, but all is well in the end”–Molly discovers that under the mistletoe “all my troubles, all my strife melts away. It’s as if we’re in a snow globe, a tiny perfect world where only the two of us exist…Just like that, the mystery is solved.” Pine needles and mulled cider, cinnamon and spice, with a sprig of mistletoe held by a red velvet bow, Nita Prose’s The Mistletoe Mystery is magic.
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