Used book – An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, P. D. James

There is no shortage of suspects, and Commander Dalgliesh, assisted by the faithful Kate, who is now teamed with the handsome and cynical Piers, considers them one by one. There is Garry Ashe, the murderer whom Venetia had acquitted, but whom she absolutely did not want as a son-in-law. There is her colleague Laud, whom she threatened to supplant as head of Chambers. And then there is the ambitious Simon Costello, her fellow barrister, whose shady dealings she wanted to expose, dealings that could ruin his career…