From the New York Times bestselling author of the Adam Dalgliesh series comes a compelling collection that includes An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin, featuring Private Investigator Cordelia Gray.

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces bestselling mystery author P.D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way” (The New York Times).

In The Skull Beneath the Skin, Detective Cordelia Gray is asked to protect an actress within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle—but instead finds the stage is set for death.