The Murder of Harriet Krohn by Fossum Karin

Author:Fossum, Karin [Fossum, Karin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Reference, Mystery & Detective, Thrillers & Suspense, General, Suspense, Thrillers, Fiction, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 184655795X
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014-11-18T08:00:00+00:00

There she is!

Julie’s running toward him. He sees her right away, because her red hair stands out in the crowd of youngsters. There’s a new spring in her step. She chucks her bag in the back seat and jumps in, and the car rocks on its suspension. She’s hot and breathless. Now he’s able to relax again. He’s concentrating on Julie. He’s still uncertain about his new role, and whether now, at last, he can be Dad again. Does she really want to spend time with him? She fastens her seat belt and glances at him from the side. Her voice is lively and cheerful.

“Did you remember the carrots for Crazy?”

He smiles and says yes, he has remembered the carrots.

Charlo puts the car in gear and thinks, Here we are, my daughter and I, driving together. We’re friends. This is what I’ve always yearned for. I took drastic measures, but I got to where I wanted to be. Again he corrects himself. This is not where he wanted to be, he only wanted Julie. Have I got her now? he wonders. Will she remain with me forever?

“What are you thinking about?” Julie asks.

Charlo considers. He wants to be honest. Build up a good relationship without any deceit or illusion.

“I’m think about the things I’m frightened of,” he says. “What I’m most frightened of at the moment.”

“And that is?” she asks. Her smile is lurking just below the surface. There isn’t a cloud in her sky, so she doesn’t want to be serious.

He blurts out the answer. “My health.”

“Oh?” She looks at him in surprise. “But you’re always in good health.”

“Yes,” he says quickly, “but I’m a smoker. We don’t live as long as other people, you know.”

He gives way to a car on his right.

“Each and every cigarette harms me,” he announces dramatically.

She laughs her trilling laugh again and it fills the car. She gets out a scrunchie and gathers her hair at the nape of her neck. He looks at her slender throat and the graceful way she holds her head. The bridge of her nose is beautifully arched. This is his own flesh and blood, something he has a right to, hasn’t he? He was willing to kill for this. No, he wasn’t willing. It was just that there was no other way. What about the old woman in the churchyard? What’s she thinking now? What the hell’s wrong with my knees? No, he doesn’t want to start thinking about that. There are enough things troubling him, plaguing him. His thoughts run in circles while his hands rest on the steering wheel, while his heart pumps blood. He has turned his own destiny around, and his crime strikes him as daring and cowardly in equal measure. That he was prepared to go so far for another human being, that he could no longer stomach being a victim.

“Sometimes there’s a flickering in front of my eyes,” he confesses.

“Really?” She studies his profile and he meets her gaze.

“Can you see anything in them? Sometimes I think they look strange.

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