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 secretary had spent several minutes looking through files, and finally said she was afraid that it was difficult to find the name of a supply teacher who had spent only one summer at the school, when that summer was more than twenty years ago. But she had promised to let him know if she found anything or came across anyone who could help him further.After that he had booked into the only hotel in the place, had spent some time sitting on the bed with his laptop open in front of him without getting any message from Larissa, had let Sundström know that he was investigating in Karjasaari – ‘Where? What?’ Sundström had responded – and finally went to sleep in the hotel room when it was nearly afternoon, seconds after his head hit the pillow at last.
