Unseen: A Mystery by Mari Jungstedt

Author:Mari Jungstedt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 0312351577
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Published: 2003-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Kristian Nordström walked with Knutas to the door. The heat washed over them as they came out of the cool house onto the stairs. Outside, all of nature was clad in the tender green of early summer.

As Knutas drove back to Visby in the afternoon light, thoughts kept swirling through his mind. What did the story about the teacher mean? Why hadn’t anyone mentioned it before, not even her best friend Emma?

It had happened a long time ago. And yet . . .

After reaching police headquarters, Knutas noticed how hungry he was. Going home for dinner was out of the question. After obtaining this new information, he wanted to call a meeting at once. He punched in his home phone number to say he would be late.

His long-suffering wife received the news calmly. Years ago, she had quite simply given up counting on him for dinner during the week. Maybe that’s why our marriage works so well, Knutas managed to think as he took the stairs up to the criminal investigations department. The fact that they each had their own role in life, without expecting to share every single second, definitely made their life together much easier.

The detectives who were present in the building called up their usual pizzeria to put in a collective order. Between bites Knutas reported on his meeting with Kristian Nordström and told the others what he had said about Helena Hillerström’s love affair with the PE teacher, Jan Hagman.

“Did you say his name was Hagman?” exclaimed Karin Jacobsson. “I talked to him not long ago. We went out to his house in Grötlingbo.” She turned to Thomas Wittberg. “Don’t you remember? His wife had committed suicide.”

“Oh, that’s right. It was only a few months ago. She hanged herself. He was rather strange, that guy. Introverted and hard to make contact with. Do you remember, we thought it was odd the way he didn’t seem the least bit upset or even surprised that his wife had taken her own life?” said Wittberg.

“We did an investigation, of course,” said Jacobsson. “But everything pointed to suicide, and when the autopsy report came back, we were convinced that’s what happened. She had hanged herself in a barn they had on their property.”

“We need to check up on him,” said Knutas.

“But why should Hagman have anything to do with these murders?” asked Wittberg. “It was twenty years ago that they were together. I don’t see why we should spend any time on such an old story. An affair with a high school teacher? She was thirty-five years old when she was killed, for God’s sake.”

“I agree that it seems like a long shot,” said Norrby.

“That may be, but I still think it would be worthwhile to talk to Hagman,” said Knutas. “What do you think, Karin?”

“Yes, of course. We don’t have anything else concrete to go on. Although it’s strange that none of the people we interviewed ever said anything about this PE teacher. And why would Kristian Nordström decide to mention it now?”

“He told me that it just didn’t occur to him,” said Knutas.

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