The Maid and the Mansion Books in Order
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Last updated: January 14, 2026
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Publication Order
5 books
An Unsolvable Crime
by Fiona Grace
2024
Mary Adams faces a case everyone wants to label unsolvable, because solving it would expose the wrong people. Refusing to back down, she follows quiet clues and hidden connections through the mansion’s routines, determined to clear the innocent and name the guilty.
An Impossible Heist
by Fiona Grace
2024
When an impossible heist hits a stately home, Mary Adams is pulled into a web of theft, lies, and looming violence. Moving unseen through the household, she untangles who had access, who had motive, and who will kill to keep what they stole.
A Scandalous Death
by Fiona Grace
2024
Mary Adams is learning how dangerous high society can be when a scandalous death ripples through the household. Overhearing whispers and watching power plays, she pieces together the motive that the rich would rather bury, along with the evidence.
A Missing Guest
by Fiona Grace
2024
A guest goes missing at a grand estate, and Mary Adams knows the story won’t end well if she doesn’t act. Following clues through servants’ corridors and polished parlors, she searches for the truth before someone turns a disappearance into a cover-up.
A Mysterious Murder
by Fiona Grace
2023
In post-World War II England, Mary Adams leaves factory work for a job as a maid in a grand estate. When her employer is found dead and Mary is blamed, she must use her sharp mind, and her invisibility, to prove the truth.
Series background & context
Mary Adams is clever, capable, and tired of being overlooked. In post-World War II England, she leaves factory work behind for a job as a maid in a grand estate, stepping into a world of privilege that runs on silence and secrets.
What she doesn’t expect is to become the prime suspect.
The series opens with A Mysterious Murder, when Mary refuses her employer’s proposition and he’s found dead the next morning. Mary has no choice but to investigate, using what she knows best: how to move through a house unnoticed, how to listen, and how to spot the ways the rich try to control a narrative.
These books are historical cozies with a strong upstairs-downstairs feel. Mary overhears gossip from fellow staff, catches slip-ups from the people in charge, and learns that every person in the house has a motive, including those who claim to be above it all.
The ongoing tension comes from Mary’s position. She’s close enough to see everything, but powerful enough to threaten the wrong people if she starts asking questions. Each mystery tests her courage and her ability to outthink a system designed to keep her quiet.
Start with A Mysterious Murder and read in order to follow Mary as she turns a job meant to make her invisible into her greatest advantage.
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