A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.
bookshelves: britain-england, fraudio, mystery-thriller, winter20092010, re-read, winter-20102011, play-dramatisation, families
PD James detective mystery starring Sian Phillips and Hugh Grant.