Cockroaches (Jo Nesbo) by Jo Nesbo

Author:Jo Nesbo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller & Suspense, Crime Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Published: 2013-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

PART FOUR

27

Friday 17 January

THE REST OF the night was mostly about his headache. Harry sat in a chair in his flat, a doctor came, took a blood sample and said he had been lucky. As though he needed anyone to explain that. Later Liz sat beside him and noted down what had happened.

‘What did he want in the apartment?’ she asked.

‘No idea. To frighten me maybe.’

‘Did he take anything?’

He glanced round. ‘Not if my toothbrush is still in the bathroom.’

‘Clown. How do you feel?’

‘Hung-over.’

‘We’re launching an immediate investigation.’

‘Forget it. Go home and get a few hours’ shut-eye.’

‘You’re cheerful all of a sudden.’

‘I’m a good actor, aren’t I.’ He rubbed his face with his hands.

‘This isn’t a joke, Harry. Do you realise you’ve been poisoned by CO2?’

‘No more than the average Bangkok citizen, according to the doctor. I mean it, Liz. Go home, I haven’t got the energy to talk to you any more. I’ll be fine by tomorrow.’

‘Take tomorrow off.’

‘As you wish. Just go.’

Harry had knocked back the pills the doctor had given him, slept without dreams and didn’t wake until late morning when Liz phoned to see how he was. He grunted by way of an answer.

‘I don’t want to see you today,’ she said.

‘I love you too,’ he said, rang off and got up to dress.

It was the hottest day of the year and at the police station everyone was groaning. Even in Liz’s office the air-conditioning system couldn’t keep up. Harry’s nose had started peeling and he was looking like a rival to Rudolph. He was halfway down his third litre bottle of water.

‘If this is the cold season what’s the—?’

‘All right, Harry.’ Liz didn’t look as if she thought talking about the heat would make it any more bearable. ‘What about Woo, Nho? Any clues?’

‘Nothing. I had a serious talk with Mr Sorensen at Thai Indo Travellers. He says he doesn’t know where Woo is, he’s no longer employed by the firm.’

Liz sighed. ‘And we have no idea what he did in Harry’s apartment. Nice. What about Brekke?’

Sunthorn had got hold of the caretaker in the block where Brekke lived. In fact, he could remember the Norwegian had come home some time after midnight on the night in question, but he couldn’t say precisely when.

Liz informed them that Forensics was already busy combing through Brekke’s office and apartment. They were examining his clothes and shoes in particular to see if they could find something – blood, hair, fibres, anything – that could connect Brekke with the murder victim or crime scene.

‘Meanwhile,’ Rangsan said, ‘I have a couple of comments to make about the photos we found in Molnes’s briefcase.’

He pinned up three magnified photos on a board beside the door. Even though the images had churned around long enough in Harry’s brain for them to lose some of their initial shock effect, he could feel his stomach heave.

‘We sent them to the Vice Squad to see what they could make of them. They can’t connect the photos with any known distributors of child pornography.

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