Make Me Clean
from the #1 ebook bestselling author of Call Me Mummy
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3.7 • 10 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
'Moving, dramatic and darkly humorous' - DAILY MAIL
'Brings a whole new meaning to domestic noir' - THE TIMES
'Funny, grim and very touching' - HARRIET TYCE
She will leave your surfaces sparkling.
But she may well leave you dead...
Maria is a good woman and a good cleaner. She cleans for Elsie, the funny old bird who's losing her marbles, with the terrible husband. She cleans for Brian, the sweet man with the terrible boss. She cleans for the mysterious Mr Balogan with the terrible neighbours. But if you're thinking of hiring her, you should probably know that Maria might have killed the terrible husband, the terrible boss and the terrible neighbours. She may also have murdered the man she loved.
She didn't set out to kill anyone, of course, but her clients have hired her to clean up their lives, and she takes her job seriously - not to mention how much happier they all are now. The trouble is, murder can't be washed out. You can only sweep it under the carpet and pray no one looks too closely...
Darkly funny and completely gripping from the first page to the last, Make Me Clean is one thriller you won't be able to scrub from your mind. Perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce, Fiona Cummins and My Sister the Serial Killer.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We invite cleaners into our homes but how well do we really know them? That’s the compelling premise of this wild crime caper. It follows Maria, a London house cleaner-cum-carer with a dark past and even darker present. Maria not only might have murdered her abusive husband but could have taken on similar jobs for her favoured clients. Well, who better than a cleaner to remove any telltale traces from a crime scene? It’s blackly comic, occasionally graphically gruesome and often emotionally affecting as flashbacks reveal how our homicidal anti-heroine got to this point. Her affectionate bond with elderly client Elsie, who has dementia, adds sweetness to this morally complex tale. As the body count mounts and the plot grips, it recalls My Sister, the Serial Killer, with a dash of Winston Wolf from Pulp Fiction. It also addresses wealth inequality and the way society treats low-paid workers. The author’s father is a window cleaner, while she’s worked stints as both a cleaner and a carer herself. This experience shows, lending what could have been an implausible thriller the tang of authenticity.
Customer Reviews
Fan-bloody(quite literally)-tastic!
Where do I start with telling you how awesome this book is? This is exactly the kind of book that I love to read, one that will hold my attention from start to finish and have me on the edge of my seat throughout! The only problem now is that I have a massive book hangover!
Maria is a cleaner, she’ll leave your sideboards sparkling, your floors spotless and she’ll dispose of anything you need her to, including things like evil husbands! Maria may sound like a bad person, but she really isn’t. Everything bad she does is with good reason and you can’t help but love her! She’s up there with my favourite book characters of all time and I know I’ll really miss reading about her.
I love following the author Tina on social media, her posts always make me laugh and her humour really shines through in this book. The funny bits are balanced out well with the darker bits of the story. It is extremely well written and highly original, I’ve not read a book like this before, which is very refreshing.
The characters in this book were all very unique, their personalities emanated from the pages enabling me to imagine them all perfectly in my head. I’d love to see this book on screen!
Not many books have me rooting for the killer! Move over Joe Goldberg 😂 This is the first book I’ve read by Tina Baker and I’m extremely excited to go back and read her previous two books now!
A pulse-pounding, page-turning, makes me want to clean type read! Loved it!!!
Wouldn’t buy another
Took me ages to read because it never really gripped me. Didn’t enjoy the ending. Wouldn’t purchase another book by the same author.