The young maid from a wealthy house was too smart, too beautiful, and too clever.
She knew too much — and wanted too much.
Her murder didn’t seem strange to the experienced detective Adam Dalgliesh — such a thing was to be expected.
What was strange, though, was that the murdered woman was hated by every member of the family, even the neighbors. Yet none of them, at first glance, was ready to commit the crime…