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Book 3 in the series and I cannot recommend it enough. It's really that good.

This is the third book in the four-book cozy mystery called the Blanche White series. I highly recommend this series which stars Blanche White a domestic worker who solves mysteries in spite of it all. The late great author of this series Barbara Neely continued to mix mystery, social commentary, and murder with intelligence and the sassy voice of Blanche. I can‘t wait to get to book 4 but am regretting that it‘s the last book in the series.

Very entertaining; although lots of characters and lots of murders made tying things up at the end a bit sensational and drawn-out.

Blanche is nosy! #barbaraneely

Amazing characterization for primary and secondary characters, smart mystery plot twists, strong sense of place, pieces of wisdom about life, and seamlessly integrated commentary on race, class, abortion, sex work, domestic work, and environmentalism. I loved the amateur sleuth / maid Blanche, for her smarts, flaws, and sass. Neely does such an incredible job building Blanche as a character. I am completely hooked! #DiverseDetectives

Stack of mysteries I got at the library yesterday! Featuring Liz Bugg's lesbian PI mystery series set in Toronto, Barbara Neely's third book in the series with Blanche White, amateur black sleuth and maid, Tanya Huff's paranormal urban fantasy mystery series with a woman PI and vampire team and Thomas King writing as Hartley Goodweather about a Cherokee detective. Am reading Blanche Cleans Up and it is BRILLIANT! #DiverseDetectives #Mystery

This book is so good! I have totally fallen in love with Blanche, her smarts and feistiness. She's an amateur sleuth and a cook/housekeeper who's intensely curious and doesn't take bullshit from anyone. Such an amazing job of characterization! #DiverseDetectives #WeNeedDiverseBooks #Mystery