The Lonely Ones by Håkan Nesser
Author:Håkan Nesser [Nesser, Håkan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Books
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Assistant Detective Claes-Henrik Wennergren-Olofsson had the longest signature in Kymlinge police station, and as he also liked to add his title â before or after his actual name â it often took him half a minute and two lines to complete the job.
Alexander Tillgren, who had the same rank but a service record that was six months shorter, had good grounds for considering Wennergren-Olofsson an idiot. He thought they were good, anyway, but his colleague was bigger and stronger and, moreover, armed with a preening, if totally unjustified self-confidence, so Tillgren often chose to keep his views to himself.
Not that it was always easy. Wennergren-Olofsson liked to teach him things whenever the opportunity arose, and a two-hour car journey from Kymlinge to Strömstad indubitably provided the opportunity.
Iâm going to puke, thought Tillgren, long before they were even halfway there. If he doesnât shut up in a minute, Iâm going to sock him on the jaw.
âSo I told him to watch himself bloody carefully,â said Wennergren-Olofsson. âAnd do you know what the blighter did?â
âNo,â said Tillgren. âWhat did the blighter do?â
âHe tried to hit me,â said Wennergren-Olofsson.
Good, thought Tillgren. âHe never did?â he said.
âOh yes. But then he found heâd tousled with the wrong man.â
âTussled,â said Tillgren. âNot tousled.â
âEh?â said Wennergren-Olofsson.
âWrong word,â said Tillgren. âBut forget it. What do you think about this case then?â
Why am I even asking that? he wondered. Iâm just as much of an idiot.
Wennergren-Olofsson seemed to ruminate on the vocabulary question for a moment, before giving up on it. âComplicated,â he said, âbut not impossible to solve. I have my theories.â
âThat sounds exciting,â said Tillgren, prompting a suspicious glance from his colleague. It was sometimes hard to judge quite how much irony he could slip into his replies without getting caught out, and he liked to sail as close to the wind as he possibly could.
âYes, well,â said Wennergren-Olofsson. âAnd what do you think? Have you combed through the whole case?â
âNot exactly,â said Tillgren. âBut, I mean, it is pretty odd for two people to lose their lives at exactly the same spot with such a time interval.â
âPretty odd?â snorted Wennergren-Olofsson. âLet me tell you that if Iâd been in charge of those interviews, I wouldâve had this sorted. From the very beginning, I mean. Itâs important to be in on the ground floor, so to speak. Itâs obviously one of them.â
âWho did what?â said Tillgren.
âWho murdered them both, of course,â said Wennergren-Olofsson. âThis Sandlin who handled the case in â75 knew that something didnât add up, and that the Winckler babe was murdered. He just couldnât prove it.â
âIs that a fact?â said Tillgren.
âYes,â said Wennergren-Olofsson. âIt is.â
âHave you read Sandlinâs case notes?â
âSkimmed them,â said Wennergren-Olofsson.
âSo you think it was one of the group members who killed Maria Winckler and Germund Grooth?â
âYep,â said Wennergren-Olofsson. âMake a note that it was me who said it.â
âI will,â said Tillgren. âBut who, then? And why?â
Wennergren-Olofsson inserted some snus under his top lip and thought for a moment. âDamned if I know,â he said.
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