Sweet Revenge by Camilla Läckberg

Author:Camilla Läckberg [Lackberg, Camilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2022-05-12T17:00:00+00:00

The Swedish flag fluttering outside the building was at half-mast.

Ingrid was wearing black. Even though it was winter and the sun hadn’t shown its face all week, she had concealed her face behind a pair of oversized sunglasses.

She opened the door and got out of the car. Mariana Babic had been waiting inside the sliding doors to meet her. She gave her a long, warm hug.

‘Are you going to be okay doing this?’ she said softly.

Ingrid nodded with gritted teeth.

Someone must have warned the staff in the newsroom that Ingrid was on her way up. The team were gathered around the central desk. Ingrid acknowledged a few familiar faces while trying to spot Julia. Tommy’s office was empty, the desk groaning under flowers.

The Group CEO Ingvar Svedberg put an arm around Ingrid, leading her carefully to the middle of the room. Ingrid kept her eyes fixed straight ahead. Ingvar cleared his throat.

‘Tommy Steen was one of the finest people and most courageous journalists I have ever met. Aftonpressen is in mourning, the Swedish media is in mourning. We’ve been robbed of a strong, important voice in social debate …’

Ingrid stopped listening, continuing to search for Julia’s face among the journalists present.

When being questioned by the police, Ingrid had hesitantly admitted that Tommy used coke and that she’d tried to get him to stop.

She had also reluctantly explained that two weeks ago she’d realised that Julia Wallberg, Aftonpressen’s celebrated TV presenter, was the person who was helping him to get hold of the drugs. The police had exchanged glances. Ingrid knew that the Stockholm cops loved putting away people in the public eye for drugs offences to show the wider public and politicians that they took the issue seriously. Every famous person caught up in a raid was a publicity coup for the police, and Ingrid was certain they would move against Julia. Hopefully it would result in them searching the presenter’s apartment, and that would see her hitherto successful career brought to an end. Everyone in the room probably already knew that the police had found a bag of cocaine in Tommy’s jacket pocket and that the tox screen had shown he had coke in his system when he’d gone overboard.

The information had already got out online and on social media. Ingvar Svedberg could talk about Tommy’s splendid qualities until he was hoarse, but in the eyes of the public he was nothing more than a crackhead who had gone at it and then fallen overboard at a company party.

‘An accident, a terrible accident has left an incredible woman without a husband and a beautiful little girl without her beloved father …’

Ingrid pursed her lips. Ingvar cleared his throat, took a deep breath and collected himself.

‘I’d like us to honour Tommy’s memory with a minute’s silence.’

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