The Fox that Barked: A Constable Petra Jensen Novella (Greenland Missing Persons Book 18) by Christoffer Petersen

Author:Christoffer Petersen [Petersen, Christoffer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aarluuk Press for Arctic Noir, Action Thrillers and Greenland Crime
Published: 2023-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

10

Atii flashed the headlights, and I walked to the passenger side, opened the door, and climbed into the patrol car. I turned my head at the sound of lip smacking coming from the back seat and stared at two boys with their hoods pulled up staring back at me.

“Constable Jensen,” Atii said with a grin.

“Yes?”

“Meet Iigiti and Mangooq.”

“We confess,” said the shortest of the two boys in Danish as he held up his hands to show off the handcuffs Atii had fastened loosely around his wrists. I guessed he was about twelve years old, and his friend was only a year, maybe two, years older. Atii turned on the interior light and clicked her fingers, prompting the boys to stick out their bright blue tongues.

“Gobstoppers,” Atii said, turning the light off again. “That’s all it took.”

“And the handcuffs?”

Atii shrugged and said, “That was their idea.”

I turned around and the second boy held up one hand to reveal his set of handcuffs, too, plus Atii’s keys.

“They seem content,” I said. “What about the one I was chasing?”

“The one you let get away?”

“I was…” I shrugged and said, “Distracted.” I turned for another look at the boys on the backseat and then asked Atii how good their Danish was.

“Not great, but they’re trying.”

“Okay then,” I said, before telling Atii what Lyhne’s lawyer had said to me in the shadows.

“He told you to back off?”

“He told me that she wants me to back off.”

“And who is she?”

“I think I know,” I said. “Although I don’t understand.”

“Mitsikka?”

I nodded and Atii let out a soft whistle, not dissimilar to the commissioner’s.

“So,” Atii said, as she put the patrol car into gear. She double checked the address for the third musketeer, as she dubbed them, and then pulled away from the kerb. “So Mitsikka attacks Lyhne in the bar.”

“Yes.”

“You intervene.”

“I did…” I held my breath expecting Atii to say something about me putting Christian into hospital, but she refrained, concentrating for a second on choosing the quickest route to the third boy’s apartment.

“Then she gives you her life story in the back of Aki’s patrol car.”

“Yes.”

“Telling you about her son…”

“Who called me today to say he was worried about his mother. That she was missing.”

“Which you thought she was,” Atii said. “Until some sneaky lawyer steps out of the shadows to give you a message from Mitsikka, telling you to back off.”

“Yes,” I said, thinking we were all caught up, but still far from making sense of it all.

“He could be lying,” Atii said, before pulling into the parking area between two long concrete apartment blocks. The boys in the back shouted that we had arrived and then tried to open the rear doors. “Safety locks,” Atii said, grinning at them in the rear-view mirror as she parked the car. She looked at me and said, “Do you want to babysit the bandits, or shall I?”

“I’ll stay here,” I said, still too preoccupied with Garr’s message from Mitsikka to confront the parents of the third musketeer. Atii promised she wouldn’t be long, but that I should keep the radio on in case she needed me.

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