The Son by Jo Nesbø

Author:Jo Nesbø [Nesbø, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014-04-09T23:00:00+00:00

24

THE OFFICE WAS in twilight. Someone had turned off all the lights when they left, probably thinking they were the last ones there, and Simon had let it stay that way, the summer evenings were still light enough. Besides, he had a new keyboard with illuminated keys, so he hadn’t even needed to turn on his reading lamp. Their floor of the office building alone consumed 250,000 kWh per year. If they could bring it down to 200,000, they would apparently save enough money to run two extra emergency vehicles.

He navigated his way around the Howell Clinic’s website. The pictures from the eye clinic were nothing like most other American private hospitals, which resembled five-star hotels with smiling patients, ecstatic testimonies and surgeons who looked like film stars and airline pilots. This clinic displayed only a few photographs and sober information about staff qualifications, results, articles published in reputable journals and Nobel Prize nominations. And most important of all: the percentage of successful operations for the procedure Else needed. The figure was well above fifty – but not as high as he had hoped. On the other hand, it was low enough for him to believe it. There were no prices listed on the website. But he hadn’t forgotten what it was. It was high enough for him to believe it.

He sensed movement in the darkness. It was Kari.

‘I tried calling you at home. Your wife said you were here.’

‘Yes.’

‘Why are you working so late?’

Simon shrugged. ‘When you can’t go home with good news, sometimes you put off going home for as long as you can.’

‘What do you mean?’

Simon ignored her. ‘What do you want?’

‘I did as you said, turned over every stone, looked for every possible and impossible connection between the Iversen murder and the triple homicide. And I can’t find a single thing.’

‘You realise, of course, that that doesn’t rule out that there is a connection,’ Simon said and moved to another page on the website.

Kari pulled out a chair and sat down. ‘Well, if there is, then I certainly can’t find it. And I’ve had a very good look. And I’ve been thinking—’

‘We like thinking.’

‘Perhaps it’s this simple: the burglar spotted two opportunities – the Iversen house and a location with drugs and money. And he had learned from his first robbery that you should always make people give you the code to their safe before you kill them.’

Simon looked up from his computer. ‘A robber, who has already shot two people, squanders half a kilo of Superboy with a street value of half a million kroner to kill his third victim?’

‘Bjørnstad thought it was gang-related, a way to send a message to the competition.’

‘Gangs can send messages without spending half a million on postage, Officer Adel.’

Kari threw back her head and sighed. ‘Agnete Iversen definitely isn’t mixed up with drug dealing and the likes of Kalle Farrisen, I think we can be sure of that.’

‘But there is a connection,’ Simon insisted. ‘What I don’t understand is

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