The Black Path by Asa Larsson

Author:Asa Larsson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780440337980
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-07-28T18:30:00+00:00

“I don’t know if this…if it means anything,” said Per-Erik Seppälä. “But I need to tell you about it. Because if it does…well, that’s why I wanted this just between the two of us. I’ve no wish to die before my time.”

They were walking down Gruvvägen, past the old fire station. Anna-Maria didn’t speak.

“You know Örjan Bylund,” Per-Erik Seppälä went on.

“Mmm,” replied Anna-Maria.

Örjan Bylund had been a journalist on the newspaper Norrländska Socialdemokraten. Two days before Christmas Eve, which was also his sixty-second birthday, he’d died.

“Heart attack, wasn’t it?” said Anna-Maria.

“That’s the official line,” said Per-Erik Seppälä. “But the fact is, he took his own life. Hanged himself in his study.”

“I see,” said Anna-Maria.

She was surprised she hadn’t heard anything about it. Her colleagues always knew about that sort of stuff.

“That’s what actually happened, anyway. In November he told me he had something big on the go to do with Kallis Mining. They’ve got concessions around here, as you know. Outside Vittangi, and on the marshes outside Svappavaara.”

“Do you know what it was about?”

“No, but I just thought…I don’t know, I just thought I ought to tell you. Maybe it’s not just a coincidence, you know. First him and then Inna Wattrang.”

“It’s strange that I didn’t know he’d killed himself. I mean, the police have to be called in if it’s suicide…”

“I know. His wife will be completely devastated. She was the one who found him. And she cut him down and rang the doctor. You know how it is. He was well known in town, and there’s always a lot of talk. So she rang a doctor she knew and the doctor signed the death certificate and didn’t call the police.”

“Bloody hell!” exclaimed Anna-Maria. “That means there was no autopsy either.”

“I didn’t know whether I ought to…but I had to tell you. I mean, you start thinking that maybe it wasn’t suicide. If he was digging into Kallis Mining and so on. But the last thing I want is for Airi to get into any kind of trouble.”

“Airi?”

“His wife.”

“No, no,” promised Anna-Maria. “But I need to talk to her.”

She shook her head. How were they going to manage to follow everything up? Put it all together and get an overview? It was beginning to feel overwhelming.

“If you find out anything else…” she said.

“Yes, of course. I saw Inna Wattrang at a press conference Kallis Mining held here in town before they floated one of the companies up here on the stock exchange. There was something magnetic about her; I hope you catch whoever did it. You will take it easy with Airi, won’t you?”

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