The Defenceless (Anna Fekete) by Kati Hiekkapelto & David Hackston

Author:Kati Hiekkapelto & David Hackston
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Contemporary Fiction, Murder, Noir, Thrillers & Suspense, International Mystery & Crime, Contemporary, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Suspense, Women Sleuths, Serial Killers, Crime Fiction, Reference & Test Preparation, Crime, Women's Fiction
ISBN: 9781910633144
Publisher: ORENDA BOOKS
Published: 2015-08-01T23:00:00+00:00

13

THE REPORT on the Opel belonging to Marko Halttu’s mother had been marked as urgent and important. Anna clicked the email attachment with a sense of expectation. More drugs or signs of gangs, she quickly presumed, but the findings revealed something altogether different. Anna carefully read the report twice, once quickly skimming through, then a second time, one word at a time, as if to make sure that the text in front of her eyes truly existed. There was a surprise in the boot of the car. Human traces: a bloodstain, a few hairs, epithelial cells. Call ASAP, Kirsti signed off her email. Úr Isten, said Anna out loud. What else has the junkie boy been up to? Who transported people like that? Only dead people got stuffed into the boot of a car. Or prisoners, victims of torture. Nobody travelled in the boot of a car by choice. What on earth has been going on in that ghost house?

Anna got on the phone to Kirsti, who sounded excited and agitated when she picked up.

‘The hairs found in the boot of Halttu’s car match the hairs from Vilho Karppinen, the old man found on the road at Taipaleenmäki,’ she said. ‘Same colour, same length, same structure. You’ll have to cross-reference the DNA, but the forensics team knows a thing or two about this. I’ll bet my fifteen years’ experience that old Mr Karppinen was in the boot of that car.’

‘It can’t be!’ Anna exclaimed. What did this mean? Why on earth was Vilho in the boot of the car?

‘Looks like it, I’m afraid.’ Kirsti’s voice had become serious.

‘If he’d been driven there by car, that would certainly explain why there were no footprints on the road.’

‘It also complicates the investigation considerably.’

‘I know. This means that Marko Halttu is somehow involved in Vilho’s death. Jebiga bassza meg.’

‘What?’

‘Nothing.’

‘Besides, we found other hairs in the car too. Black ones, definitely not Finnish. On the headrest in the passenger seat.’

‘Really? This gets more and more interesting.’

‘Don’t you have an illegal Pakistani boy in holding?’

‘Yes. I’m scheduled to interview Sammy today.’

‘Good. Ask him about the car.’

‘Damn right I will.’

Anna felt troubled. She didn’t want to ask Sammy about the car and any hairs they’d found there. She wanted to get him out of police custody, sort him out with an apartment and get him into school, treat his drug addiction and offer him the possibility of the life every young man should have. Esko would strangle me if he knew, she thought. And after Sammy she was due to interview Maalik and Farzad. Am I fit to conduct these interviews at all, she wondered.

Linnea had sent Anna an email too. She had completed Marko Halttu’s autopsy and submitted the preliminary report. Linnea estimated the time of death at around two days before they had found the body. That means Sammy had been in the apartment with a corpse, helping himself to drugs. Halttu’s body displayed contusions that had been caused around twenty-four hours before his death.

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