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1) Indelicacy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles-cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical-that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires"--
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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
Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave plantation, Myrna works as a maid by day; by night she trespasses on the resort's overgrown inland property, secretly excavating the plantation ruins the locals refuse to acknowledge. Myrna's mother has stopped speaking and her friends are focused on surviving the present, but Myrna is drawn to Cruffey Island's violent past. With the arrival of Mrs. Manion, a wealthy African-American, also comes new...
6) Homemade sin
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2020?], c1994
Language
English
Description
Inquisitive cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Callahan Garrity faces the opposition of her own family when she investigates the carjacking death of her cousin, Patti McNair, and uncovers a host of dark family secrets.
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mystery volume 7
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When his wife is found murdered just before Christmas, Callahan Garrity's brother disappears, leaving her with the daughter he has kidnapped and the hope of clearing his name.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In an offbeat alternate universe romantic comedy, Daisy, an underachieving, 30-something cleaning lady wins a million dollars and follows a lifelong dream of going to London and meeting Prince Charles. Through a series of misunderstandings, the Royal Family doesn't realize Daisy's station in life until after she and Charles have fallen in love"--
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Language
English
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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Louisa, a young chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker, forms an unlikely friendship--based on a mutual fascination with pigeons--with the hotel's most famous resident, eccentric and pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla, during his final days.
Author
Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
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.
12) Strange brew
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013,
Language
English
Description
As gentrification overtakes Callahan's funky neighborhood, not everyone welcomes the rebirth. When the body of a murdered microbrewer is discovers, suspicion falls on the aging "flower child" shopkeeper whom the victim put out of business.
Author
Publisher
Plume, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Working as a cleaner in the cathedral of Chartres for more than twenty years, Agnès Morel profoundly transforms local lives by performing small tasks and using her subtle influence until an accidental encounter reveals tragic incidents from her youth.
Author
Series
Language
English
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...
15) Warning at one
Author
Series
Lois Meade mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Lois Meade has a personal stake in her latest investigation when her son Douglas becomes a prime suspect in the killings of a cantankerous elderly neighbor, Clem Fitch, and his noisy pet rooster.
16) Lean on me
Author
Series
Family Is forever volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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
Lily Bard mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"What makes Charlaine Harris's Lily Bard novels stand out among traditional cozy mysteries is the decidedly noirish spin she puts on the seemingly typical charming southern town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, and on her heroine. Lily Bard, a karate devotee by choice and a cleaning woman by trade, is a woman with a dark past; she's fiercely protective of her independence and reserved about herself. In short, Lily makes a refreshing, compelling amateur sleuth."--BOOK...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Helen Hawthorne finds her job at Sybil's Full Moon Hotel in Fort Lauderdale threatened when the body of a maid turns up in a dumpster, a discovery that could bring the local cops down on her head and lead to a confrontation with her ex-husband.
19) Polished off
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
There's a bad case of spring-cleaning fever going around New Orleans's historic Garden District, and it's keeping Charlotte LaRue--proprietor of Maid-for-a-Day--plenty busy. Especially when what's supposed to be a simple housecleaning job ends in a grim discovery--and things start to get real dirty real fast.
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When hired to find the controversial and valuable diary of a Civil War madame, Callahan Garrity—a former Atlantic cop, now cleaning lady-cum-sleuth—runs afoul of radicals of every kind as well as a murderous antique collector.