them by the front door.” blomkvist did as he suggested ahe very day he would go sh underair of good winter shoes.
the old maour by explaining that blomkvist’s neighbour acrunnar nilssoant whom vaed on g “the caretaker.” but blomkvist soo he was more of a superi for all the buildings on hedeby island, and he also had responsibility for several buildiad.
“his father was magnus nilsson, who was my caretaker iies, ohe me at the a the bridge. magired and lives iad. gunnar lives here hose heir have moved out.”
vanger paused for a moment to shape what he would say , which was: “mikael, the official explanation for your prese y to help me write my autobiography. that will give you an excuse f around in all the dark d askihe real assigrictly between you and me and dirch frode.”
“i uand. a i said before: i don’t think i’m goio solve the mystery.”
“all i ask is that you do your best. but we must be careful what we say in front of anyone else. gunnar is fifty-six, whis that he was ee disappeared. there’s ohat i a and gunnar were good friends, and i thi of childish romaweety ied i a on the day she disappeared, he was iad; he was ohose strahe mainland. because of their relationship, he der close sy. it was quite u for him. he was with some friends all day, a get batil evening. the police checked his alibi and it was airtight.”
“i assume that you have a list of everyone who was on the island and what everybody was doing that day.”
“that’s correct. shall we go on?”
they stopped at the crossroads on the hill, aed down towards the old fishing harbour, now used for small boats.
“all the land on hedeby islahe vanger family—or by me, to be more precise. the oion is the farmland at ?sterg?rden and a few houses here in the village. the s dowhe fishing harbour are privately owhey’re summer cottages aly vag the wihat house farthest away—you see smoke the ey.”
blomkvist saw the sm. he was frozen to the bone.
“it’s a miserably draughty hovel that funs as living quarters year-round. that’s where eugen norman lives. he’s iies and is a pais. i think his work is kitsch, but he’s rather well knoainter. you might call him the obligatory etri the village.”
vanger guided blomkvist out tooiifying ohe other. the village sisted of six buildi side of the road and four ohe first house, kvist’s guest house and the vae, beloer’s brother harald. it was a regular, two-storey stone building which at first glance seemed uhe s were draath to the front door had not bee was covered with a foot and a half of snow. on sece, they could see the footprints of someone whed through the snow from the road up to the door.
“harald is a recluse. he and i have o eye. apart frreemehe firm—he’s a shareholder—okeher in nearly 60 years. he’s wo now, and the only one of my four brothers still alive. i’ll tell you the details later, but he traior a of his professional life in uppsala. he moved back to hedeby whey.”
“you don’t care much for each other, a yhbours.”
“i fiable, and i would have rather he’d stayed in uppsala, but he owns this house. do i sound like a sdrel?”
“you sound like someo much like his brother.”
“i spewenty-five years of my life apologising for people like harald because we’re family. then i discovered that beied is no guarantee of love and i had few reasons to defend harald.”
the house beloo isabella, harriet vaher.
“she’ll be sevehis year, aill as stylish and vain as ever. she’s also the ohe village who talks to harald, and oally visits him, but they don’t have muon.”
“how was her relationship with harriet?”
“good question. the womeo be ihe suspects. i told you that she mostly left the to their own de
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