The Lost Woman by Sara Blaedel

Author:Sara Blaedel [Blaedel, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9781455541072
Amazon: 1455541079
Goodreads: 30297411
Publisher: Hachette
Published: 2014-11-07T06:00:00+00:00

Hanne was on the phone when Louise marched through the secretary’s office without so much as a glance and barged into Rønholt’s office. He was in a meeting with two gray-haired men she recognized, officers from the National Police.

She ignored the two men. “I have to talk to you.”

She and Rønholt stepped out of the office, then she towed him into the lounge. “What the hell is going on?” For a moment she feared she would start talking and never be able to stop, but suddenly her thoughts cleared. “Eik has been arrested. Again.”

Rønholt raised an eyebrow, but before he could speak she said, “I’ve just spoken with the English police. They suspect him of murdering Sofie Parker, and it looks like they have a very good case against him.”

“Eik didn’t kill anyone,” he said, with a certainty that caused Louise to regret not redirecting Davies’s phone call to his office.

“That may be, or it could also be that we’re the ones in the dark. Like I had no idea he’s been emailing Sofie Parker for some time now. I didn’t know they’d been in touch. And I didn’t know he had some reason to send her threatening emails. Not that I know what he threatened her with. Or why. I didn’t even know he knew she was alive.”

She felt dizzy, thoughts swirling in her head.

Rønholt was standing close to the window in the kitchenette. He leaned back and rested his hands on the countertop. “But they’ll have to release him when they hear he has an alibi for the weekend she was shot. You were together, weren’t you?”

Louise slowly shook her head as she pieced together her memories of those days. “No. I was visiting my parents in Hvalsø, and he wasn’t home when I got back Sunday evening, after driving Jonas to boarding school. It was late. I was asleep when he got in.”

Rønholt stared at the floor.

“They’re charging him with assault against the husband and breaking and entering,” Louise said. “He might even have taken something from Sofie’s office; they haven’t determined that yet. What the hell is going on? Is there anything else besides that fucking basement room you haven’t told me about?”

He shook his head. He still looked calm, but his expression was serious now. “I would be very surprised if Eik actually were in touch with his missing girlfriend. This doesn’t sound at all right to me.”

“Apparently he sent the last email to her no more than two weeks ago.” She had been racking her brain. Some evenings Eik had been sitting in the living room with his computer on his lap when she went to bed. Could he have written the emails then? Or was it late at night after opening a bottle of red wine, even though she was tired and was in bed with a book. Maybe she hadn’t noticed if he had occasionally seemed quiet. She didn’t know, and she couldn’t make sense of it, either, considering all the kissing and sex, and how close they had been during the six months they’d lived together.

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