Winter Grave by Helene Tursten

Author:Helene Tursten
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ficiton
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2019-10-07T00:33:14+00:00

Friday’s early meeting took place in the town hall, in the same room as last Wednesday’s briefing. This time there were significantly more officers in attendance; reinforcements had been brought in from the National Crime Unit in Stockholm in the hunt for Viktor Jansson’s killer. Embla noticed that Sven-Ove Berglund was still out sick. It must have been something serious—a heart problem, rumor suggested—which meant a heavier responsibility lay on the shoulders of Acting Chief Superintendent Roger Willén. He stood there straight-backed in his impeccable uniform, his blue shirt freshly ironed. Who took care of that kind of thing? Did he have a wife or someone else at home, or did he do it himself? Embla realized she didn’t know a thing about his personal life, which was a little strange given how closely they’d worked together during the events of the previous fall. Then again, maybe not. VGM had never been part of the regular team, but had always worked as a separate external resource.

Willén began by informing everyone that he’d spoken to the doctors responsible for treating Kristoffer Sjöberg at the hospital. They had reluctantly agreed to bring their patient out of his induced coma.

“His aunt, Eva Sjöberg, will be there. She’s his next of kin and a trained nurse. I’ve also asked for a police presence, and I’d like VGM to take care of that. Okay?”

He looked at Göran, who nodded.

“Good. They’ll be bringing him around this morning. I don’t think it will be possible to question him right away, but maybe in a few hours?”

Willén moved on to the CCTV footage from the gas station, which elicited a murmur of approval. Ted Andersson wasn’t going to get away with this. But why was Johannes Holm with him? He wasn’t known as a bad guy. And who else was in the car? Willén asked the locally based officers to try to come up with possible names. They were probably looking at one or more associates of Andersson, possibly Holm as well.

Patrik Lind was sitting not far down the table from Embla, whispering to an older colleague from Strömstad. The other man was speaking a little more loudly, and she heard him say that he could understand the fathers’ frustration and that he didn’t know how he would have acted under the circumstances.

“That Sjöberg kid has always been weird. My daughter went to junior high with him. Like I said, weird. I bet he took Amelie, and it wouldn’t surprise me if he took Viggo, too,” he said.

The online trolls and the gutter press have done a good job, Embla thought.

The hunt for Viggo was still ongoing, it was day five now, and no trace of the boy had been found. There was an air of resignation about the team responsible for organizing the search. The parallels with Amelie’s disappearance were all too evident. The theory that both children had been abducted and were no longer in the area had been put forward on a number of occasions,

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