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1) The maid
Author
Series
Molly the Maid volume 1
Description
"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...
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Series
Description
"When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty"--
With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, Molly Gray has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. Her world is turned upside down when J.D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead on the hotel's tea room floor. It becomes clear...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Every night, she cleans. On the fourth floor of an unnamed office in an unnamed city, the night cleaner comes and does what she does best--sorts out the messes of the daytime employees. None of them know her, but she knows everything about them: Sad Intern's dreams to get promoted, Resume Woman's nasty flight-risk behavior, Mr. Buff's secret smoking habit ... After all, protecting the employees is her responsibility: whether it's from rats and window...
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Series
Publisher
HarperLuxe
Pub. Date
2014, 1996
Description
Callahan Garrity has her hands full trying to expand her cleaning business. So she's reluctant to take on a client in need of detective services, especially when that client is the most notorious woman in Atlanta. Whitney Albright Dobbs is a wealthy socialite who, while under the influence, killed a young black girl in a hit and run. Callahan is not keen on tracking down Whitney's soon-to-be ex-husband's assets. But it only takes a glance to see that...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2010
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Description
When a big Hollywood movie studio comes to New Orleans and wants to use Bitsy Duhe's gorgeous Victorian house for a shoot, Bitsy consents—as long as Charlotte La Rue, owner of Maid for a Day, agrees to take care of her beloved home during filming. . .
Soon Charlotte meets the cast and crew, including Hollywood ingénue Angel Martinique. The movie seems to be going well—until a body is found dead in Angel's dressing room, a bloody letter...
Soon Charlotte meets the cast and crew, including Hollywood ingénue Angel Martinique. The movie seems to be going well—until a body is found dead in Angel's dressing room, a bloody letter...
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1992
Description
A former Atlanta policewoman and her all-female crew of cleaners are involved with political corruption and murder.
7) Lean on me
Author
Series
Family is forever volume 1
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Description
"Tabitha Knicely loves her career as a pharmaceutical rep, but even her health care knowledge isn't much help with the daily challenges she now faces caring for her aunt with Alzheimer's. Her once organized lifestyle is in disarray and her patience is tested. On Sunday mornings, when Aunt Tweet drags her to church, though Tabitha isn't a believer, the peaceful presence of faith is a welcome relief. Marcus Whittington believes in second chances, so...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
A yuppie starting a brewery in a section of Atlanta undergoing gentrification is found dead at a party. As house cleaner Callahan Garrity investigates, suspicion centers on people the dead man evicted from the building he bought.
10) Midnight clear
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013, c1998
Description
In the midst of the Christmas rush, Callahan Garrity's long-lost brother Brian appears with his two-year-old daughter Maura, then as abruptly disappears without the child when his ex-wife, from whom he kidnapped Maura, is found murdered. It is up to Callahan and "the outrageous band of 'girls' in her Atlanta cleaning crew" to clear Brian's name.--Jacket.
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004, c2000
Description
Anthony Award-winning author Charlaine Harris' fourth entry from her Lily Bard mystery series is a critically acclaimed gem. Trying to keep a low profile as a cleaning lady, Lily gets sucked into a murder investigation when one of her clients is killed in an apparent tryst gone bad.
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A new series set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, featuring a heroine who runs a cleaning business. One night in a garbage bag she discovers the body of her landlord, which makes her a suspect. Now she must clear her name. A study in smalltown inhabitants.
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Description
At the Savoy hotel, two women with very different pasts try to forget the devastation of the Great War and forge a new life in a city where those who dare to dream can have it all. Dolly is the Savoy's newest chambermaid, whose proximity to the dazzling hotel guests fuels her dreams to be a star like her idol, Loretta May. Loretta, the daughter of an earl, has rebelliously turned her back on the ordered life expected of a society woman and lives as...
14) Strange brew
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013, 1997.
Description
The winds of change are blowing, bringing gentrification to Callahan Garrity's funky Atlanta neighborhood. Though it probably won't harm her House Mouse housecleaning service, not everyone welcomes the rebirth. And when the body of a murdered microbrewer is discovered in the aftermath of a furious Halloween gale, suspicion falls on the aging "flower child" shopkeeper whom the victim put out of business. A former cop, Callahan isn't as quick to condemn...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005, c2001
Description
Welcome back to the sleepy little town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, where secrets come to hide. Lily Bard has joined a group therapy session, determined finally to face her past. It sounds positively enlightening, until the murder of a fellow member sends a warning. But who was the message meant for? Why? And who's next to fall victim to a killer's head games?
Author
Series
Matchmakers of Harts Haven volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Pregnant and desperate, Victoria Worthington runs to the only place that's ever felt safe. For years she's been controlled, first by her crime-boss father, then by her ex-boyfriend. Donning a hand-sewn dress, a kapp and a new name, she escapes as Abby Martin to the Amish community of Harts Haven, where she spent happy summers with her grandparents. Taking a job as a maid at the local inn, Abby plans to repair her grandparents' abandoned house and...
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Pub. Date
1999
Description
In 1940s New York, a rich man's daughter from Cuba falls in love with a waiter. They marry, have children and when he falls ill and is unable to work, she becomes the sole breadwinner, working as a cleaning woman. But one day her cleaning job will bring luck. By the author of Mr. Ives' Christmas.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2007
Description
From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets-the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing.
Still on the run from the long arm of the law, Helen Hawthorne has found employment as a maid at Fort Lauderdale's Full Moon Hotel, picking up after clueless tourists and keeping her head down.
But staying discreet gets a bit more difficult when Helen opens the hotel Dumpster and...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Former cop, currently co-owner of the House Mouse housecleaning service, and freelance P.I., Callahan Garrity raises eyebrows when she accepts an assignment from the most hated woman in Atlanta -- a wealthy white socialite who killed a young black girl in a drunken hit-and-run and was punished with no more than a slap on the wrist. Even Callahan's "Mice" are grumbling.
But when a roadside murder turns up the heat on the racial tensions that have...
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