Calm Waters (E&M Investigations, Book 5) by Lena Bourne

Author:Lena Bourne [Bourne, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

Sojer asked us to meet him at the National Police Bureau building, and even though I’ve been in here since with no problem, the sight of its dark glass, sleek facade as we park in front of it fills me with all the dread I felt on the night I had to spend here waiting for Mark. Only some of the lights are on, because it’s so late in the day, and we find Sojer alone in one of the multi desk rooms on the third floor. There are no computers on any of the desk, save for a laptop on the one next to him, and the room smells of stale coffee, furniture polish and dust.

The overhead lights only illuminate about a third of the area where Sojer is working. He has set up a whole whiteboard, which he has covered with photos, printout, arrows and text. He’s writing something on it using a green marker as we approach.

“I’ll be with you in a sec,” he says without even glancing back at us. The frenzy with which his hand is moving as he writes reminds me of myself when I’m deep into drawing up the connections in a case I’m investigating.

I pull up one of the office chairs and sit down in it, facing the board Sojer is putting together. Mark remains standing beside me.

The board Sojer is using is about a meter and a half wide. He’s pinned pictures of the two doctors on top followed by a row of crime scene photos in chronological order, starting with Marko Ban and going all the way up to Ana Kobe. Under each of these, he also pinned a photo of them alive and completed the series with the date on which they died and their age.

Under this is the timeline of where each of the doctors worked during the years. The gaps in the killings don’t quite line up with the absences of either of the doctors, but they’re close enough to be possible.

And under this, he has written the names of two women with a question mark next to each.

He straightens up from putting down the second of these question marks and turns to us.

“I’ve spoken to this one,” he says and points at the first name—Kaja Hren. “Kline treated her for depression and suicidal ideation when she was twenty-three and she claims that he molested her while she was hypnotized.”

“He uses hypnosis?” I ask and Sojer nods.

“Him and Lap both do,” he says. “It’s something like their specialty, and the main reason why they have such a rich and distinguished clientele. A lot of very prominent people claim they were helped greatly by their hypnotherapy sessions.”

As far as I’m concerned, the use of hypnosis should be limited to helping people remember things they’ve repressed. I am not a big fan of hypnosis being used to put thoughts into people’s minds, however helpful and harmless. But then again, this could just be my prejudice and fear of the unknown speaking.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.