The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson & Ebba Segerberg

Author:Kjell Eriksson & Ebba Segerberg [Eriksson, Kjell & Segerberg, Ebba]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780312327682
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-02-06T20:21:41+00:00

The meeting finished an hour later. Ola Haver felt unusually dispirited. The mention of Ann Lindell made him long for Rebecka. He thought about sneaking home to her for an hour or two. He had done this on a few previous occasions, before the children had come along and when she had had a day off.

He smiled at the memory and opened the door to his office. At the same time, the telephone rang. He looked at it, let it ring a few times before answering.

“Hi, it’s Westrup. Are you right in the middle of something?” the voice said quickly, then continued, “You’re working on the Little John case, am I right? We received a tip this fall about a gambling ring and Little John’s name came up.”

“Damn,” Haver said, and all his low spirits were gone.

“We’re keeping our eye out for an Iranian called Mossa, a player, maybe he also deals drugs, what do I know. He’s allegedly part of a high-stakes poker ring.”

“How did you find this out?”

“One of the participants couldn’t keep his mouth shut. Åström took him in for questioning in connection with some forged business invoices. It’s a case of suspected money laundering: this guy was sitting on a lot of cash he had trouble explaining how he got his hands on. That’s when talk of this poker game came up. He probably exaggerated the whole thing, mostly to get Åström off his back about the invoices, but he dropped a few names.”

“Had John won or lost?”

“He won—a lot, as it turns out. There was talk of a couple of hundred thousand.”

“Let’s talk to this guy. What’s his name?”

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