The Punishment She Deserves. Elizabeth George ISBN:9781444786668

A member of Parliament appears at New Scotland Yard with a request to investigate the suicide. The victim is the son of one of his constituents in the lovely town of Ludlow. The assistant commissioner sees two possibilities in his sudden appearance. Firstly, this deputy can do him a favor. Secondly, get rid of detective sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career in the London police has been hanging by a thread for so long. So the Assistant Commissioner assigns Havers to the case. He appoints as her assistant a person who also passionately desires her departure - senior investigator Isabella Ardery. But Ardery had his own difficulties. A business trip to another city does not excite her, so upon arrival in Ludlow she does everything to return to London as soon as possible. The state of haste while working prevents her from seeing some strange facts. Soon the case is reopened, and this time Linley is sent to Ludlow along with Havers. and they were given just over a week to save the reputation of the London police and Barbara’s position. And the further the detectives investigate, the more convinced they become: the suicide was only part of a whole chain of terrible events.