Murder in the Library is the first in the Lottie Sprigg Cozy Country House Mystery series by Martha Bond. I discovered there is another series featuring this character, but they are travel mysteries. Here, she has just returned from those travels and adventures so she's proven to be an excellent sleuth. She arrives just before a dinner, a fancy dinner ... with families that have been feuding for centuries. The current Lady of the Manor (from, gasp, America) thinks it's time for that to end. It's the son of that family who is found dead ... a bookish sort of young man, why was he targeted? (You'll find out)!

Molly is a maid (yes, she's aware of the alliteration) at a fancy hotel. She loves her work because it allows her to work alone, and she has problems dealing with people, often misreads their body language, and so on. She can clean up the messes people leave behind ... until it is a dead body. That changes everything. Molly's odd behavior makes her an early suspect, until the police learn how she can help. The Maid, by Nita Prose introduces us to a new kind of sleuth as this is the first in a new series. :-)

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