This first novel in a new series introduces fortysomething and single sleuth Flip Paxton, who lives in the quaint town of Solace Glen. She's always taking care of everyone, but sometimes Flip encounters messes that aren't so easy to clean up. When the matriarch of the town of Solace Glen suffers a fatal heart attack, she begs the town's maid and confidant, Flip Paxton, to find three letters hidden for generations by the women in her family and give...

When a woman is found strangled in a North London cemetery clutching an old newspaper clipping, Inspector Witherspoon is surprised to find that he and the victim have crossed paths before. He'll need Mrs. Jeffries' help to revisit an old case that has haunted him for years.

"Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never hope to afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot ever forget her past. Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a child, Noah always looks forward, never back. When Kerry reaches out to the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart...

Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the familys housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husbands faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye. Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her dearly and maps her journey in an atlas he finds in her study....

"Los Angeles television reporter Maxi Poole must help her next-door neighbors' housekeeper locate her missing young son, Robert Ochoa"--Provided by the publisher.

"Returning home for the holidays after an unexpected pregnancy, Clara Fisher needs a fresh start. And working as a housekeeper for Tucker Church and his teenage niece is the first step. Clara still has hard choices to make, but Tucker might be just the person to help her forget her fears. Could the path to her new future also lead to love?" -- Page [4] cover.

In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.