Buzz: A Thriller by Anders de La Motte

Author:Anders de La Motte [Motte, Anders de La]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781476712918
Amazon: 1476712913
Barnesnoble: 1476712913
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Published: 2014-01-07T06:00:00+00:00

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TRUST IS GOOD

From: Holmblad, Eva

Subject: Lunch

Date/time: Today, 13:00

Place: Eriks Bakficka, Fredrikshovsgatan 4

Participants: Sandström, Magnus; Argos, Philip

Accept?

Decline?

FOR A COUPLE of seconds his panic at being unmasked flared up again, but he quickly got it back under control again. Eriks was a restaurant in Östermalm and Philip would hardly have chosen it if he wanted to discuss anything unpleasant. Besides, he thought they connected pretty well the last time they met.

So what was this about, then?

There was only one way to find out.

♦ ♦ ♦

She had parked her aching body in front of the computer so she could go through all the posts again.

The first few times she had read through them she hadn’t really noticed anything special.

But as she kept digging away at it, she became more and more convinced that there was actually some sort of pattern.

Well, pattern was probably the wrong word . . .

It had all started fairly gently. MayBey’s first seven or eight posts were fairly jokey. Black humor, certainly, but still very funny. They were about a Superintendent Superstud, someone female colleagues ought to watch out for if they found themselves paired up with him. Then there was Police Commission Chairman Completely Stuffed, who on more than one occasion had been pulled in for drunkenness and had had to spend the night in the cells, and County Police Commissioner Teflon, to whom no shit ever stuck, and plenty more in the same vein . . .

But as the number of readers grew, MayBey’s posts slowly began to change character. The humor had been gradually replaced by cynicism, and the tales of various types of arrests had become darker.

The readers didn’t seem to have noticed anything, though, or else they simply liked MayBey’s new style, because the number of comments kept growing with each new post—and there actually seemed to be more of them whenever MayBey did or described something that was right on the boundary of acceptable behavior . . .

. . . a cocky little teenage joyrider in a tracksuit trying to play tough. Refused to say what his partner in crime’s name was—spat at my partner.

Al Pacino in an oversized tracksuit . . .

So we cuffed him and put him in the car. Then the dog handler let go of his dog in there and I shut the door. A couple of minutes screaming and crying, then little baby Al sang like a bird about anyone and everything.

And he was polite too—didn’t say a word, even though we made him scrub the piss off the seat himself back at the station. You’d probably have liked our instant justice, Regina?

That post had attracted more than fifty comments, all of them positive.

ROFL—you’re the man, MayBey!

Ought to be more like you in the force.

Have been grinning about this all day.

The strange thing was that for some reason—she didn’t really know why—she had got the impression that MayBey wasn’t writing about these incidents to make other people laugh. Just like the other posts, she got a feeling that

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