The Gingerbread House by Gerhardsen Carin

Author:Gerhardsen, Carin [Gerhardsen, Carin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: nordic crime, police
ISBN: 9789187173158
Publisher: Stockholm Text
Published: 2012-09-14T07:07:08+00:00

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The assault Petra Westman was subjected to over the weekend had been reduced to a story. True, she had only told it to a single person, but in her mind she had gone through the whole sequence of events an incalculable number of times. What she felt about the whole thing was shame. Shame at waking up in a bed in a strange house, not knowing who she spent the night with. Oddly enough, she did not feel violated. She assumed that was because she had no recollection of what happened, but she wanted to get rid of the shame. At any price.

As long as she kept busy there was no problem, but when she was trying to fall asleep, she tossed and turned for hours while the embarrassing memories went through her mind, one after another. Naked and groggy between the Egyptian-cotton sheets, or in front of the bathroom mirror in the luxury home in Mälarhöjden. Or else stumbling on her new boots on the way out of Clarion’s bar.

Besides, she could not shake off the doubt. Had she really been raped? Not in the traditional sense. If she had been attacked and raped, there would have been no doubt. Perhaps that would have left deeper marks. Perhaps she would have had injuries and diseases and God knows what. But there would have been no doubt. She would have avoided the doubt. And the awful shame.

For that reason she would follow through on this project. She was firmly resolved to put the well-polished senior physician behind lock and key. With his charming smile and his damn laugh lines. And something told her that Mona Friberg would have nothing against that, either.

With the information about Peder Fryhk’s interest in war in the back of her mind, on Wednesday, Petra Westman made contact with the military. After numerous phone calls, she finally got hold of the now sixty-one-year-old major who had been Peder Fryhk’s commander during his final months at KA1. He remembered Fryhk as a lone wolf, but gave her a tip about a former Foreign Legionnaire of Hungarian origin who had been hired by the troop to train the coast commandos in hand-to-hand combat. Fryhk, according to the major, had shown a greater interest in this Andras Takacs than his fellow draftees, and he had the impression that they hit it off during the training.

Petra had an immediate feeling that she was on the trail of something interesting and thought it might be worth trying to contact Takacs. He was not hard to find. A Google search directed her to a karate club on Norrmalm where he was currently active. She was told, however, that he was away and could not be reached until Thursday.

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