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A suitable job for a woman

by P. D. James

Cover her face: A beautiful, scheming young girl comes to Mrs. Maxie's house to help look after her invalid husband. When a murder upsets the peaceful country household, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is called in from Scotland Yard. A mind to murder : Attempts by Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh to find a murderer are complicated when psychiatrists at the fashionable Steen Clinic decide to play detective. An unsuitable job for a woman : Left alone by her partner's suicide, Cordelia Gray struggles to manage the private detective agency they once shared.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?