Millie is on parole and looking for work. She thinks she hit the jackpot when she lands a job as a live-in housekeeper for the Winchester family. The whole story then twists and turns as you find out more about Nina Winchester and her mental problems. You also get the background on Millie and things aren’t always what they seem.

I did this one as an audiobook. I really need to stop picking books where it changes who is the narrator or it hides who is the narrator. Things aren’t as easy to pick up on in an audiobook as they are on paper! I did enjoy the Jersey-esque accent the reader adopted for Millie though.

This is a pretty typical story for today. Introduce us to a bunch of characters, start to let us see their true colors, then make sure the real bad guy was not one of the people that looked like they did the bad stuff. I picked up pretty quick on who the real bad guy was, but man was it fun listening to Nina be a total psycho. The book has a few laugh out loud moments and was generally fun. On the other hand, there was some stuff not to like.

Millie was in prison, but is unbelievably naive. I found that really hard to swallow. She just trusts everyone and takes them at face value. She reads a lot of them right and knows they aren’t great people, but she really just buys what everyone feeds her. Then, she just falls right into an affair with her boss? I found that hard to believe as well. Nina was much more believable.

When the author changes narrator halfway through the book, it wraps up the whole story and explains everything. I felt like that came really early in the book. I was glad to have the massive amount of background, you always feel like its not enough, but at the same time it was just too much. Maybe leaving us with questions as to why and how is better than spelling the whole thing out.

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Look out List – Definitely 18+ book

• Alcohol use
• Language
• Extramarital affairs, sex scene
• Murder
• Discussion of rape
• Torture, inprisonment