After She's Gone by Camilla Grebe & Elizabeth Clark Wessel

Author:Camilla Grebe & Elizabeth Clark Wessel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2019-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

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We sit in the dark car outside Berit’s house.

”You were right,” Andreas says, looking down at the medallion resting in his hand.

“I wish I’d been wrong. We can probably rule out that Peter suffered some accident now.”

“Hanne and Peter must have been on the trail. They must have gone somewhere on Friday and then…”

He leaves the sentence unfinished.

“But why didn’t they tell anyone else?”

Neither of us says anything. Even though we just made a crucial discovery, I feel no joy. There is so much that feels hopeless: the realization that something terrible probably happened to Peter, Hanne’s tangible confusion in Berit’s kitchen, and the memory of Nermina Malkoc’s skull between the heavy, moss-covered stones of the cairn.

And then the woman without a face; she looked just like…

Before I even think his name, my temples start to sweat and my pulse races.

Why did I say yes to this fucking assignment anyway? I should have stayed in Katrineholm, continued with the bicycle thefts, the drunken fights, and the never-ending paperwork.

Andreas drums his fingers on the medallion, as if lost in thought. A moment later it clicks open in his hand, like a clam. And I suddenly remember what Esma said, that the medallion could be opened and that Azra kept a photo of Nermina inside.

“Turn on the light!” Andreas says, and I do. Fumble for the ceiling lamp, which floods the car with a light so bright I have to squint.

Andreas looks disgusted.

“What in the hell is that?”

I look down at the medallion and see a photo, but I see something else, too. At first I think it’s just a dark piece of fluff on top of the picture. I run a trembling finger over its downy, silk softness.

I catch my breath.

“Hair,” I say. “It’s hair.”

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