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Cover Her Face by P.D. James - New characters & plot variations by J.D. Taylor

An old school friend, and former girlfriend, of Adam Dalgleish, from Salford, single mother Jane Bradshaw, invites him to the opening of a centre for un-married and runaway teenage mothers. However, one of the residents - Sally Jupp - is reported in the papers as having a reputation for destroying happy marriages. This revelation does not go down well with her employers, the Maxie family. Resenting their change in attitudes towards her, Sally starts to rub the family members and the household staff up the wrong way. Her taunts and bad behaviour prove so inflamatory that someone decides to kill her. Even though he is tied up with a fraud investigation, Adam promises Jane to helm the enquiry into Sally's murder. In the process, he discovers that beneath the facade of happy family that the Maxies have created for themselves, nothing is what it appears to be...

tags (add tags): Class barriers, crime thriller, murder, romantic jealousy and spite