Eleanor OIiphant meets Miss Marple in a cozy mystery that is both charmingly familiar and delightfully different. Molly Gray may be a little old-fashioned, a lot blunt, and struggling with social cues, but she is also smart, capable, observant, kind, and loves her job as a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel where she returns her assigned rooms to a state of perfection every day. Admittedly, she does not always love her interactions with the guests, who don't always behave in a manner becoming the Regency Grand. She particularly does not love it when the worst but most VIP of guests turns up dead when Molly is in the middle of cleaning his suite. This is not the state of perfection she strives for. If she keeps calm, applies the rules her Gran taught her, accepts a little help from her friends, and tells the police what she saw, everything should work out fine. Except the observant Molly may have missed an important piece of this puzzle. The police suspect foul play — and they're beginning to think Molly herself brought this foul imperfection onto the scene.

Note: Molly appears to be a neurodiverse character, an identity that neither the author nor I share, so it would be worth seeking out the thoughts and reviews of neurodiverse readers for this one. If I see any, I'll link them here.