The Midnight Witness by Sara Blaedel

Author:Sara Blaedel [Blaedel, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9781538759790
Google: 1Wf3swEACAAJ
Amazon: B078W5CSMJ
Barnesnoble: B078W5CSMJ
Goodreads: 37955626
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-10-23T05:00:00+00:00

12

Louise concentrated on not spilling the two cups of coffee she carried. By now she knew that Jørgensen took his black with two teaspoons of sugar. She pushed the office door open with her foot.

At the morning meeting, Suhr had said that everyone in the department would take part in the week-after canvass. A little late to be telling us that, she thought; colleagues working on other cases might have been counting on some time off.

She set Jørgensen’s coffee in front of him.

“Thanks.”

She sat down at her desk. “Was it Narcotics or the old riot squad you were with?”

“I did time in both departments.”

“Did you ever meet a guy called Klaus West?”

He looked surprised as he shook his head. “No, I never met him, but I know who he is. They think he calls the shots on who gets which district. He’s a major player, but we’ve never managed to bring him down.”

“I met him in town yesterday when I was out with a friend.”

He looked startled, then he laughed. “Okay. So now he’s one of your friends?”

Now it was Louise’s turn to laugh. “I don’t actually know him. We were at a bar, and suddenly he and his sidekick sat down with us and bought a bottle.”

Jørgensen gazed at her wordlessly. “Where was it?”

“The King’s Bar. Close to the King’s New Square.”

He thought for a moment. “That makes sense.”

She frowned in puzzlement.

“I think he owns the place. We’ve been in there, I don’t know how many times. Didn’t find one single gram, even though we were pretty sure he had it stowed away somewhere. He’s the careful type, and he’s way ahead of anyone who’s a threat to him.”

“That must be why he bought us champagne. He probably wanted to know what we were up to.” Louise regretted not talking Camilla out of going there.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if he already knew you were with the police.”

Her jaw dropped. “How could he know that?”

“He just knows that kind of stuff.”

“There are two thousand cops in Copenhagen; I seriously doubt he’d know I’m one of them.”

“Hmmm. I promise you he knows every one of the three hundred eighty plus people working in Criminal Investigations. He keeps up on these things. That’s one of the reasons we haven’t nailed him yet. Like I said, he’s always a step ahead, and he never makes a move when there’s somebody close he’s suspicious of.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me!”

“No, he knows everybody. At one point we suspected we had a leak, someone feeding him information, and that’s not unlikely. He could afford it. But it’s damn uncomfortable thinking a colleague is leaking information. Not to mention others suspecting you.”

“Did they find a leak?”

“I don’t think so. No one heard about it, anyway.” He returned to his reading.

She leaned back. What happened at Narcotics wasn’t any of her business.

Her phone rang. “Department A, Louise Rick.”

“It was him,” Camilla said. “And the other one with the white hair, his name is Michael Danielsen; they call him Snow.

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