Dissolved by Sara Blaedel

Author:Sara Blaedel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS

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Nassrin stared at the screen and typed in the last of her daily report. She didn’t think they had gotten very far with Claus. She glanced over at Dea, who was sitting at her computer. She looked so confident with her unwavering gaze, upright posture, and tight-fitting clothes.

“Have I grown horns or something?” Dea asked without looking at Nassrin. “I can feel you staring at me.”

Nassrin was about to answer but was interrupted by Liam, who walked into the office out of breath.

“The papers are running with it now … damn it!”

“I saw that,” Dea said with a nod. “People have started keeping their kids home from school, and there’s been a frenzy of activity in various Facebook groups. There’s no helping that, but we risk the whole thing getting out of control.”

“Excuse me?”

All three of them looked toward the door, where the chief constable stood watching them.

“Chief Dybbøl,” Liam said cheerfully, straightening his back.

“I thought you’d probably still be here,” Margrethe Dybbøl said. “I read the online newspapers.”

“Yes,” Liam said. “It’s out everywhere now.”

Dybbøl cleared her throat. “Do you have all our people on it?”

“Yes, everyone who can be spared from other duties,” Liam said, standing up. “I have a good forty people out in the field right now.”

“And what do you have from today? I haven’t seen any reports yet.”

“They’re almost done,” Liam said. “We were at the address a few hours after the fifth person disappeared. We’re gaining on them. We know what our perpetrator is after. The problem is that the contents of the Ten Commandments or the selected verses from the Quran can fit a broad selection of people. Today’s was about not committing murder. Luckily, there aren’t too many murderers, so that narrowed things down, and we were able to quickly narrow in on the people we should probably concentrate on. The man we’re assuming is our latest victim was previously convicted of murder. He was released four years ago. While he was in jail, his wife gave birth to two of their five kids. We spoke to her.”

“Does that mean that you’ve made a breakthrough?”

Liam looked into her eyes. “No, unfortunately not.”

“That’s not what I want to hear. I want these disappearances to end. I fully understand that it may be difficult without bodies or crime scenes, but you’ve been given free rein to call in all the manpower you need, and I need there to be progress. The people demand it.”

“I know … Dybbøl, jeez,” Liam said, frustrated. “We’re working our butts off around the clock, and I know the pressure’s on. Besides, there’s nothing we would rather see than a break in the case. Fear is spreading everywhere, and I myself want these people brought safely back to their families. But what the hell do you want us to do beyond turning over every single stone? Plus”—he had gotten so worked up that a little drop of spit had landed on the chief’s jacket collar—“we’re trying to prevent more people from disappearing by attempting to figure out what the perpetrator’s next move will be.

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