She had her mobile to her ear, and she was tearing someone off a strip. When the conversation ended she hissed like a cat, making Sundström jump. ‘All okay so far?’ he enquired. ‘Apparently we can’t get Niskanen here.’ ‘The cross-country skier?’ he asked. She did not reply, and was already talkin...
Then he had driven to Karjasaari along the long, narrow road leading over the water.He had found the house where Anita-Liisa Koponen’s parents used to live; it stood looking well-tended but abandoned under a pale sun on the outskirts of the woods. After that he had driven to the school.A friendly...
Timo Korvensuo felt a brief, sharp stabbing in his back when he woke up. His left arm was hanging through the steering wheel and it was a few seconds before he could move it. His arm no longer felt like part of his body. He waited for a while, looking through the windscreen at the car park, while...