Where Have All the Young Girls Gone by Leena Lehtolainen

Author:Leena Lehtolainen [Lehtolainen, Leena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542040310
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
Published: 2019-01-07T22:00:00+00:00

12

“Tuomas, where are you calling from?”

“From the forest near Noor’s building.”

“And Rahim is there too, right?”

“He’s right over there, handcuffed to a tree and whining. He’s probably afraid of this knife. I could cut off his balls.”

“Tell me the address.”

“I don’t know! The patch of forest behind the bus stop west of Noor’s building. He admitted that he killed Noor. Take him to jail.”

“OK, I’ll be right there. Don’t do anything stupid.”

I called for backup and got moving. I found Noor’s building on the GPS. I remembered more or less what woods Tuomas meant. The patrol car got there before I did; Himanen and Sutinen happened to be on duty again, and they told me where to find them. When I arrived on scene, I found Rahim shackled to a pine tree with his limbs around the trunk. Tuomas was holding a knife to his neck, and Himanen and Sutinen were trying to convince him to back away from Rahim. To top it off, inquisitive bystanders had started to gather—the tree was next to a popular walking path. We weren’t very far from the place where a murderer had once threatened to kill me if I wouldn’t agree to cooperate with him. I tried to push those memories to the back of my mind. Now the most important thing was to get Rahim and Tuomas out of this situation. Both seemed like they were out of their minds. Rahim was muttering something in Persian—I couldn’t tell if it was a prayer or a curse. Tuomas was crying and ranting and raving.

“I’m going to say this one more time, Tuomas: give me the knife. There’s already plenty for us to charge you with: assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful detention, and brandishing an edged weapon in a public place. Don’t add resisting arrest and assaulting an officer to that list,” Himanen said. Sutinen and Himanen had weapons, but using them in this situation would have been too risky.

“I want him to repeat what he just admitted to me. That he killed Noor because his future wife was dating an infidel. But you wouldn’t have gotten to have Noor first anyway, you fucking pig! She lost her virginity to me in December. Suck on that!”

Rahim’s next words sounded like a curse. I looked at these two young men who were doing their best to ruin their lives, all for the sake of anger and revenge. The world was full of armies of frustrated teenagers, blinded by hate, who were easy to goad into fighting senseless wars. All you had to do was promise them honor, eternal life, or endless sex.

“Sutinen, call for backup to help get the bystanders under control. Tuomas, I’m going to come closer now. I want you to throw the knife at my feet. You aren’t stupid. I’m sure you understand that any confession you get out of him using violence won’t carry any weight in court. It’s the police’s job to get guilty people to confess, not amateurs like you.

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