Cordelia Gray · Book 2
The Skull Beneath the Skin
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9780446306065
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Skull Beneath the Skin followed a decade later, in 1982, at a longer 416 pages, sending Cordelia to a private island to protect a fading actress receiving death threats during a theatrical production.
Its place in Cordelia Gray
The Skull Beneath the Skin is book 2 in the Cordelia Gray series. It follows An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. See the full Cordelia Gray reading order.
Cordelia Gray inherits a failing one-woman detective agency when her partner and mentor, Bernie Pryde, dies by suicide, and has to prove she can survive in a profession still openly hostile to a young woman working alone. In An Unsuitable Job for a Woman , her first real case, investigating the apparent suicide of a Cambridge student, forces her to navigate class condescension and outright obstruction from the police as much as the mystery itself, establishing her as resourceful, quietly stubborn, and entirely…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446306065