The Nightmare by Lars Kepler

Author:Lars Kepler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Azizex666, Suspense, Adult, Thriller
ISBN: 9780771095825
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2010-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Penelope gasps for breath and opens her eyes. She must have fallen asleep on Ossian Wallenberg’s sofa.

Thunder rumbles in the background. The skies have turned dark.

Björn is standing at the window. Ossian is sipping his whiskey.

Penelope looks at the phone—no one has called.

The maritime police should have been here by now.

The claps of thunder are approaching. The ceiling light goes out and the fan in the kitchen stops. The power is out. The patter of rain starts gently on the roof and shutters, then increases until it seems the skies simply burst open and let the rain pour down.

All cell-phone coverage disappears.

Lightning flashes and lights the room for a second. A crash of thunder follows it.

Penelope leans back to listen to the rain. She feels the cooler air streaming inside through the windows and starts to doze off again when she hears Björn say something.

“What?” she asks.

“A police boat,” he repeats. “I see a police boat.”

Penelope quickly leaps up and looks out. The seawater seems to boil from the massive downpour. The large, official-looking launch is already close and heading for the dock. Penelope glances at the phone. No reception yet.

“Hurry up,” Björn says.

He tries to force the key in the lock of the French door. His hands are shaking. The police launch glides in next to the dock and blares a warning note.

“It doesn’t work,” Björn says. “This is the wrong key.”

“Oh, dear, oh, dear,” Ossian smirks. He takes out his key chain. “Why don’t you try this one instead.”

Björn fumbles with the door key, gets it into the lock, turns it, and hears the tumblers click open.

It’s hard to see the police launch through the rain. It has already started to move away from the dock when Björn manages to open the door.

“Björn!” Penelope yells.

They can hear the motor thud and white water churns up behind the launch. Björn waves wildly and runs through the rain as fast as he can down the gravel pathway to the dock.

“Up here!” he yells. “We’re over here!”

Björn doesn’t even notice how drenched he’s getting as he races down onto the dock. There is an underwater thud as the launch reverses its engines. Björn can barely make out the figure of a police officer in the wheelhouse. A new flash of lightning brightens the sky. It looks like the police officer is talking into his sea-to-shore radio. Rain pounds down on the roof of the launch and waves beat against the beach. Björn waves both arms. The launch turns back and bumps gently leeward-side against the dock.

Björn grabs onto the wet ladder and climbs aboard onto the foredeck, then clatters down a set of stairs to a metal door. The launch rocks in a swell. Björn staggers a second and then opens the door.

A sweet metallic smell fills the wheelhouse—oil and sweat.

The first thing Björn spots is a police officer, tanned from his work, lying on the floor with a bullet hole between eyes that are wide open. The pool of blood beneath him has dried almost black.

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