The Maid’s Diary – Book Review

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

This was an intense psychological thriller–one of the intense thrillers I have read!

Kit Darling is a maid cleaning the houses of the rich. She had a tumultuous past which she didn’t want to remember about. Kit has a very annoying habit–she likes to snoop things around in her employer’s houses. In one of the houses, while snooping around, she discovers something, that makes her remember about her past…

Meanwhile, Detectives Mal and Benoit were called to a scene–they arrive at a luxurious house named Glass House where it has become a place of a violent crime. A witness claimed that she heard some screams at night and Kit was last seen by her. Mal and Benoit must locate the missing maid and find the truth about what really happened in the house.

This was as I mentioned earlier, an intense thriller and unputdownable one too. There were snippets of Kit’s diary where she talked about what she had found in her neighbor’s house and remembering about her own past. Then we come across another character named Daisy who is pregnant with her first child and who starts receiving threatening messages from a mysterious person. Then we have Daisy’s husband Jon who is a womanizer and who is trying to get a promotion. We are curious as to what really happened to Kit and if Daisy and Jon are responsible for the murders or what happened to the mysterious couple Vanessa North and Haruto North who lived in the Glass House? There were twists, there were turns, and some parts that will put the reader on the edge. The ending was completely unexpected that I have to take a moment to breathe…

Overall, this was a great thriller that will keep you up all night–worth five stars!