"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"--

"OLD RIVALRIES NEVER DIE. BUT SOME RIVALS DO. Juliet Townsend is used to losing. Back in high school, she lost every track team race to her best friend, Madeleine Bell. Ten years later, she's still running behind, stuck in a dead-end job cleaning rooms at the Mid-Night Inn, a one-star motel that attracts only the cheap or the desperate. But what life won't provide, Juliet takes. Then one night, Maddy checks in. Well-dressed, flashing a huge diamond...

"Noelle is an efficient, friendly hotel cleaner--a model employee. Or so she'd have you think...trouble is, she can't help but take little "souvenirs" from the rooms she cleans. Nothing of value--a lipstick, a hair clip, some tweezers. By the time the guest has noticed, she's long gone. As Noelle begins work at her twenty-first hotel, she's determined to last longer than her record of one month in the job. But then she meets her new colleagues. These...

Nikola Tesla spends the last days of his extraordinary life at the Hotel New Yorker "in this surreal historical novel [that] dazzles in the details" (The New Yorker).

It is 1943, and legendary inventor Nikola Tesla occupies a forbidden room on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity. Broke, forgotten, and suffering from a weak heart, his only consolations are his memories and his daily walks to Bryant...

"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 that her island community refuses to acknowledge. Rapt by the crumbling walls of the once slave-owner's estate, she explores the unspoken history of the plantation--a site where her ancestors once worked the land, but which the resort now uses as a lookout...

"1961. After a longtime resident at Nashville's historic Maxwell House Hotel suffers a debilitating stroke, Audrey Whitfield is tasked with cleaning out the reclusive woman's room. There, she discovers an elaborate scrapbook filled with memorabilia from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Love notes on the backs of unmailed postcards inside capture Audrey's imagination with hints of a forbidden romance . . . and troubling revelations about the disappearance...

" ... Delves into the tangled relationships of hidden worlds of people brought together, and torn apart under extraordinary circumstances. One man, Jedra has fled his native Iraq and taken a technician job at the Royale Hotel, where he works in the boiler room and pines for the attention of Phyllis, the front desk clerk who mysteriously remembers. Heaven. Khouri, an Iranian engineer whose entire family has died before attends a business conference...

"Jasmine, the housekeeper, lives alone in the world. She Xi used to being ignored while working at the Regent Hotel, Xi to loosen pillows, and Xi to wipe away dirt, dust, and secrets of the bustling guests. She's just a housekeeper -- why should anyone else pay attention to her? But one day, the corpse of the rich Blake is in the room she is about to clean. After the police intervened in the investigation, Jasmine's unsociable and misunderstanding-prone...