Room No. 10 by Åke Edwardson

Author:Åke Edwardson [Edwardson, Åke]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9781451608526
Amazon: 1451608527
Barnesnoble: 1451608527
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

18

It became late afternoon, evening. Where was Elisabeth Ney? No one could see the leaves falling after dark, but they did fall. The crowns of the trees became more and more sparse. Soon it would be possible to see through them, over to the next street, over to the next square, up to the next building. Was she there?

They did what they could, what they always did in these kinds of situations, and a little more. A woman had disappeared. Her daughter had recently been murdered. She was deeply in shock, disoriented, despairing; no one knew how she felt right now. Her disappearance was connected to the murder in that way. Were they connected in any other way?

“Are you saying that I have something to do with this?!”

Mario Ney had started to get up. He sat down again. Neither Winter nor Ringmar needed to do anything. And Ney didn’t look as though he were going to strike out. More like he might leave.

“Did I say that you do?” Winter said.

They were sitting in Winter’s office. It wasn’t a formal interrogation, but naturally, it was an interrogation.

“More or less,” Ney said.

“I’ll be frank with you,” Winter said. “When people disappear, we want to know what their family members were doing at the time of the disappearance. Where they were.”

“Can’t you think of anything better?”

“It’s often the best thing.”

“I don’t believe that,” Ney said. “I don’t believe that at all.”

Winter didn’t say anything. Ringmar was silent. Something rattled against the window, as though some of the autumn leaves were trying to get in, or entire branches.

“In any case, you know where I was,” Ney said. “I was home.”

“Was there anyone who saw you?” Ringmar asked.

“I was alone. My God. You know I’m alone now. What is this? How can you keep doing this?”

“I mean whether you ran into a neighbor,” Ringmar said.

“Or whether you made another phone call,” Winter said.

“Where would I go? And who would I call? Anyway, can’t you check that? Whether I made a call?”

“Yes.”

“Yeah, yeah, I get it,” Ney said.

He suddenly looked even more tired, as though it was all over after all. Hope had left this city when it became dark. Or as though he wanted to say something more. Winter thought he wanted to say something more. That was why they were sitting here. Winter’s intuition was strong there. He often depended on it. Ney knew something but didn’t want to say. Whatever had happened, and was happening, he didn’t want to say it. His secret was deep as an abyss. What could it be? What the hell could it be? Could he wear Ney down and find out?

“What do you think of Elisabeth’s disappearance?”

“What . . . what do you mean?”

“Why has she disappeared?”

“She’s disoriented, of course. She never should have been allowed to leave the hospital, like I said before.”

Winter nodded. Ney had also said that she never should have gone there.

“That’s what this is about,” Ney continued.

Winter nodded again.

“You’re not saying anything, Winter. You don’t seriously think that Elisabeth’s disappearance has to do with .

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