X Ways to Die by Stefan Ahnhem

Author:Stefan Ahnhem [Ahnhem, Stefan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786694638
Publisher: Head of Zeus

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FABIAN HAD TO fight his way out of sleep, and once he opened his eyes he didn’t understand where he was, other than that it was outside and he was lying on something hard. Slabs. Square concrete slabs underneath him. A pavement. He sat up, turned towards the nearest house and realized it was his own.

His balance was far from restored, and his legs still felt like they belonged to someone else when he grabbed hold of the porch rail and heaved himself up. It was hard work, and the dull pain in his thigh from being stabbed with the tweezers made itself known as he climbed the six steps to the front door.

How had he ended up on the pavement outside his own house, how long had he been gone and what had Molander done to him? The last thing he could remember was a sudden prick on the side of his neck, then everything had gone dark.

At least he still had his phone, and it claimed it was twenty past six in the morning, almost three hours since he walked into Molander’s trap. Three hours that were completely erased from his memory.

His gun was back in its holster, too, its magazine full. Molander had had every opportunity to kill him in that bathroom but had instead opted to let him live. For how long remained to be seen.

The whole affair told him two things. One, that Molander was confident he wouldn’t reveal what he knew to anyone else in their team while the Pontus Milwokh investigation was ongoing. Two, that he’d meant it when he said he didn’t think they could bring the case home without his help.

Whether he in turn could trust Molander was far from clear. And that he would uphold his end of the bargain and voluntarily turn himself in once Milwokh was under arrest sounded too good to be true.

The door was locked, but his keys were in his pocket, so he unlocked it and entered.

As far as he could recall, Molander hadn’t mentioned Stubbs’s name once during their conversation, but there could be several reasons for that. Perhaps he didn’t want to reveal how much he knew. Perhaps he had a completely different plan for how to deal with her. But the best-case scenario was that he didn’t know she was involved at all, and that he didn’t know anything about Elvin’s boat.

Either way, he was going to have to call Stubbs to tell her what had happened and together they were going to have to analyse this new situation and agree on what steps to take. Should they move Elvin’s boat again? Could they keep using their pay-as-you-go phones or did they have to come up with some other way of communicating?

They also needed a plan for how to discover where Molander was hiding the forensic evidence. Without it, Milwokh couldn’t be convicted. The question was if he would even be charged, since they’d be unable to point to any connection between him and the murders, other than chance in the form of a dice.

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