The Hummingbird by Kati Hiekkapelto

Author:Kati Hiekkapelto [Kati Hiekkapelto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909807754
Publisher: Arcadia Books Limited
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

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The message had arrived halfway through her shift, and Sari hadn’t paid it any attention at the time. Now she was standing in her nightgown in the darkened bedroom looking out of the window, holding her phone. Teemu was away on business again; this time he would be away for three days in a row. What should I do now? There were only two messages, and it had been a while since the first one. He didn’t seem very keen for a stalker, and the messages were short. His English wasn’t up to much either. But why had she started to receive them after Riikka’s murder? Could it really be simply a coincidence?

Sari looked out at the small solar-cell lights lining the garden from the gates to the front door. They were nothing but decoration, like glow worms shining in the dark. They weren’t nearly strong enough to light the garden properly. Anyone could be standing out there, lurking, plotting – and I wouldn’t see them. The neighbours wouldn’t see anything either. What’s that car parked over by the street? Is it red? Sari tried to look more carefully, but the darkness blurred the colour and contours of the vehicle. Nobody’s going to stalk me, she snapped as she pulled on her shoes and jacket over her nightgown, got her phone ready to call the emergency services, stepped out of the front door and marched up to the car parked on the street.

It was black. Empty. Sari recognised it: the neighbours’ eldest son was visiting again. How embarrassing.

Am I really going to let two prank text messages get the better of me? Any teenage idiot could be behind them. What am I thinking?

Sari went back to the house and locked the door carefully behind her. She fetched a spare mattress from the closet and made herself a bed on the floor in the children’s room. There she lay and listened to the sound of their calm breathing in the room that smelled of children. If I get one more message, then it’s time to act, she decided.

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