This is another book I loved – great read, good plot twists, and laid out in such a way that, although I was pretty sure I could see how it would end, I had no idea how we would get there. Really a pleasure to read.

Kit Darling is invisible. She’s a ghost who haunts the edges of people’s lives, although people rarely see her. In her job as a maid to the uber-wealthy in the posh neighborhoods of Vancouver, her clients seldom see her – but she seems them. She sees their dirty laundry – literally. She takes out their trash. She tidies up all the messy corners of their lives. She is addicted to snooping through their secrets, until one day a new client rocks Kit’s carefully constructed world. A blast from the past, you might say, who brings up a dark secret from Kit’s own past.

Mallory Van Alst is called in to investigate what looks like a homicide. No one could have lost that much blood and lived – but there is no body. The home owners – a security executive and his pregnant wife – are missing. Their maid is missing. And the muddy shoeprints lead right to their friends, another high-powered executive with a pregnant wife.

Nothing is exactly what it seems in this book. There is some really delightful misdirection that kept me on my toes! As soon as you start to form a theory, White throws something else in the mix – a diamond pendant, a bloody shoe, a flash drive, some photos taken from a distance. You really do need to get right to the final page to see how everything shakes out, and that is exactly what I want from a mystery.

My copy of The Maid’s Diary came from the depths of my Kindle library. Hidden gems are the best kind.