Book Review - The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White

Title: The Maid’s Diary
Author: Loreth Anne White
Genre: Mystery/ Thriller
Published: 2023
 
Description: Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl”, compelled to poke into her wealthy client’s closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the priveliged 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 improbably 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.
 
Review: I had no expectations going in this book. It came in last in the GoodReads choice Awards 2024, for the mystery/ thriller category and I didn’t hear any Booktubers or Bookstagrammers talk about this book. This book was a pleasant surprise.
 
We follow this book through multiple perspectives. First, Kit, the maid. She is writing in her diary and we are witnessing this. We also follow the perspectives of a Daisy, who is pregnant, her husband John, detective Mallory van Last, the neighbor of a murdered couple and a photographer. At first, you have no clue what the links between all these characters is. Slowly everything unfolds and the pieces fall into place.
 
I had the same experience with this book as when I read “The Kind Worth Killing” by Peter Swanson. The book is filled with plot twist and even more twisted characters. You’re constantly on the edge of your seat.
 
At one point in the book, I felt they should have ended it. The book drags on a bit too long at then end. This is the reason I’m not giving this book a perfect score. But overall, “The Maid’s Diary” is a very underrated and overlooked thriller, that more people should read.
 
Rating: 4,5/ 5