An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

"She’s a fine writer. I knew her in the House of Lords, of course. She was an absolutely delightful, charming person. This is the first of the Cordelia Gray series, who is a very tough, very intelligent, frankly, a very PD James woman. I mean, she could have been writing about herself. Cordelia Gray takes over the Pryde detective agency on the death of her boss and has to run it. This is the first case she comes across. She’s asked to investigate the death of a young student in Cambridge. PD James lived in Cambridge, so she knows it backwards. The father of the student is a distinguished professor and considers it suicide. He asks her to wrap it up for him, but she delves into it and discovers it wasn’t a suicide…"