Nita Prose, THE MYSTERY GUEST: A Maid Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to #1 New York Times bestselling author Nita Prose about THE MYSTERY GUEST, a delightful whodunit and pointed social commentary that follows Molly, an unfailingly honest and oddly lovable professional maid, as she tries to solve a murder… Nita reveals it was never her intention to turn her immensely popular debut novel, THE MAID, into a series… but then something odd sparked her imagination (it involves a mummified rat and a silver spoon). Nita also discusses the challenges of invisible workers, her research into hotel life, her love of salsa dancing, her background as an editor, and potential future novels in the Maid series.
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| 1:03.2 | Nita Prose is the author of The Mystery Guest, a maid novel. Nita is also the author of |
| 1:08.9 | The Maid, which has sold over one million copies worldwide |
| 1:12.0 | and was published in over 40 countries. A number one New York Times bestseller and a Good |
| 1:16.6 | Morning America book club pick, the Maid won the Ned Kelly Award for International |
| 1:20.7 | Crime Fiction and was an Edgar Award's finalist for Best Novel. Welcome, Nita. Thank you so much for |
| 1:26.0 | coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss the mystery guest, a maid novel. Thank you so much for coming on. Momsdon have time to read books to |
| 1:28.0 | discuss the mystery guest, a made novel. Thank you so much, Libby. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:33.7 | Oh, yay. So exciting. So as we're talking, this will come out after the book has come out, but we are |
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