Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two tough intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family Cordelia soon realises it is not a case of suicide and that the truth is entirely more sinister.<br><br>P. D. James is the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley Children of Men and The Murder Room. Her first Cordelia Gray novel An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is a brilliant work of crime fiction packed with secrets and suspense. This novel has been adapted for television twice the second adaptation in 1997 starred Helen Baxendale as Cordelia Gray.