Die For Me by Jesper Stein

Author:Jesper Stein [Stein, Jesper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime, Scandi-noir
Publisher: Mirror Books
Published: 2020-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35

Bo Langberg had been picked up at his office and was now waiting to be interviewed for the second time while the investigation team held a quick strategy meeting. He had repeatedly turned down the offer of legal advice.

Everyone was delighted that Jeanette Kvist had positively identified his voice. They had a suspect. Now what they needed was incriminating evidence.

‘What’s the theme for the interview?’ Darling asked.

Axel got up.

‘We need to go through everything with him again, but I suggest we focus on the rape of Jeanette Kvist. Yesterday we asked him about the other cases. We need to put pressure on him regarding Jeanette Kvist, because he’s lying. We need to make it clear to him that his voice has been recognised and that he’s in serious trouble. And the trump card is his wife. She had no idea we brought him in last night. He only sent her a text message saying he would be spending the night at his office. So I’m hoping that might put the cat among the pigeons. She knows he’s a suspect in a rape case. He needs to know that she knows. I don’t have strong feelings about taking the interview myself. I’m happy to leave that to Bjarne and Vicki, if that’s OK with you. The wife didn’t give us anything that incriminates him – nothing except his bizarre habit of leaving their home every other night in his running clothes and not returning until after midnight, which in my eyes is enough for us to make him our prime suspect when we throw in the location of his office and his presence at the same train stations as the ones Jeanette Kvist was at on the night she was raped.’

They nodded.

‘And then there’s his running clothes. It’s the perfect excuse for lurking around the city. Copenhagen is full of panting morons in Lycra, so no one would bat an eyelid at a 44-year-old man out and about in that outfit at two o’clock in the morning.’

‘When will we get the DNA results?’ Darling asked.

‘In two days. I’ve asked them to make it a priority.’

‘We’ll hold off raiding his office. We don’t have enough on him yet. Once we have the DNA result, we can carry out a search,’ Darling declared.

DNA was the God of the modern police investigation. And Darling was a serious worshipper. As far as Axel was concerned, DNA supplemented the groundwork: investigation, tracking down witnesses, interviews, technical evidence which formed the basis for rebutting lies, for gathering puzzle pieces which looked chaotic to begin with, but which would in time fit together and form a picture. In the old days they would have got a search warrant based on what they had now, but today you waited for the DNA test – an attitude to police work Axel regarded as soft. But he had accepted he would have to learn to live with it a long time ago. And without it. Because no one could

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