Paid in Spades
Stig Larssen
- Elvind
- Jansen
- leaves
- prison
- after
- twenty
- years,
- with
- what
- he
- is
- sure
- is
- a
- foolproof
- scheme
- for
- a
- future
- life
- of
- luxury.
- Three
- days
- later
- he
- is
- dead
- –
- shot
- on
- the
- 6th
- tee
- of
- Måttesby
- golf
- course.
- Digging
- in
- a
- bank
- of
- earth
- for
- the
- bullet,
- the
- SOCOs
- find
- it
- –
- embedded
- in
- the
- skull
- of
- a
- skeleton
- that
- has
- lain
- there
- for
- ten
- years.
- When
- Jansen's
- sister
- is
- killed,
- Cnut
- is
- faced
- with
- three
- murders
- and
- a
- host
- of
- suspects.
- Blackmail
- seems
- the
- likely
- motive
- for
- the
- first
- two,
- but
- which
- of
- the
- dozen
- or
- so
- residents
- of
- Måttesby
- was
- the
- subject
- of
- the
- blackmail,
- and
- is
- he
- or
- she
- the
- killer?
- Are
- the
- three
- deaths
- connected,
- and
- if
- so,
- how?
- Cnut
- has
- other
- desperate
- problems,
- both
- personal
- and
- professional.To
- pile
- on
- the
- misery,
- a
- man
- who
- hates
- him
- is
- placed
- as
- his
- superior,
- in
- a
- job
- he
- himself
- has
- turned
- down
- twice,
- and
- comes
- gunning
- for
- him.
- Desperate,
- he
- hits
- the
- bottle
- for
- the
- first
- time
- in
- his
- life
- –
- and
- continues
- to
- do
- so.
- Cnut
- becomes
- convinced
- that
- the
- residents
- of
- the
- new
- houses
- in
- the
- small
- village
- are
- connected
- in
- some
- way,
- not
- only
- to
- the
- deaths
- and
- to
- each
- other,
- but
- also
- to
- Arne
- Bredsson,
- the
- entrepreneur
- who
- owns
- the
- whole
- complex,
- and
- believes
- that
- therein
- lies
- the
- key
- to
- the
- mystery.
- The
- DNA
- from
- the
- skeleton
- brings
- a
- further
- strange
- twist,
- though
- the
- detectives
- still
- have
- no
- identification.
- When
- they
- finally
- obtain
- that
- knowledge,
- along
- with
- other
- family
- history,
- they
- know
- who
- was
- being
- blackmailed,
- though
- that
- person
- is
- obviously
- innocent
- of
- the
- murders,
- and
- those
- murders
- are
- not
- all
- they
- have
- to
- deal
- with.
- New
- facts
- they
- obtain
- reveal
- a
- tale
- of
- sexual
- depravity
- so
- horrific
- that
- Ilse
- feels
- physically
- sick.
- With
- all
- the
- answers
- in
- his
- possession,
- Cnut
- has
- two
- life
- or
- death
- decisions
- to make…
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