” had carried out a series of raids. why they should have itted a savage, sexually related murder without stealing anything was never explained.
for a time suspi was directed at a neighbour in the village, a bachelor who in his youth e allegedly homosexual crime—this was baosexuality was still a punishable offend ag to several statements, he had a reputati “odd.” why someone osedly homosexual would it a sex crime against a laiher. hese leads, or ae.
sala there was a k to the list i vae book. leviticus 20:16 said: “if a roay beast a, you shall kill the womahey shall be put to death, their blood is upo ’t be a ce that a farmer’s wife by the name of magda had been found murdered in a barn, with her bed and tied up iall.
the question was why had harriet vaen down the name magda instead of lovisa, arehe vit under. if her full beehe tv listing, salander would have missed it.
and, of course, the more importaion was: was there a liween rebecka’s murder in 1949, the murder of magda lovisa in 196er’s disappearan 1966?
on saturday m burman took blomkvist oour of norsj?. in the m they five former employees who lived within walking distanan’s house. everyohem coffee. all of them studied the photographs and shook their heads.
after a simple lunch at the burmahey got in the car for a drive. they visited fes near norsj?, where former employees of the try shop lived. at eaah warmth, but no-one was able to help them. blomkvist was beginning to despair.
at 4:00 iernoon, burman parked his car outside a typical red v?sterbotten farm near norsj?vallen, just north of norsj?, and introduced mikael to henning forsmaired master ter.
“yes, that’s assar br?nnlund’s lad,” forsman said as soon as blomkvist showed him the photographs. bingo.
“oh, so that’s assar’s boy,” burman said. “assar was a buyer.”
“how d him?”
“the lad? well, you’ll have to dig. his name was gunnar, and he worked at the boliden mine. he died in a blastihe mid-seventies.”
blomkvist’s heart sank.
“but his wife is still alive. the oure here. her name is mildred, and she lives in bjursele.”
“bjursele?”
“it’s about six miles dowo bastutr?sk. she lives in the long red house ht-hand side as y into the village. it’s the third house. i know the family well.”
“hi, my name is lisbeth salander, and i’m writihe ology of viole womeh tury. i’d like to visit the police distridskrohrough the dots of a 1957. it has to do with the murder of a woman by the name of rakel lunde. do you have ahose dots are today?”
bjursele oster for the v?sterbotten try village. it sisted of about twe relatively close together in a semicire end of a lake. ihe village was a crossroads ointing towards hemmingen, 101/2 miles, aing towards bastutr?sk, 7 miles. he crossroads was a small bridge with a creek that blomkvist assumed was the water, the sel. at the height of summer, it retty as a postcard.
he parked iyard in front of a konsum that was no lo opposite the third house ht-hand side. when he khe door, no-one answered.
he to walk aloowards hemmingen. he passed a spot where the stream became rushing rapids. he met two d saw a deer, but not a single persourned around. mildred br?nnlund’s door was still shut.
on a post he bridge he found a peeling flyer annouething that could be deciphered as the bjursele tukting car ship 2002. “tukting” a car arently a wihat involved smashing up a vehi the ice-covered lake.
he waited until 10:00 p.m. befave up ao norsj?, where he had a late diheo bed to read the de of val mcdermid’s novel.
it was grisly.
at 10:00 salander added oer’s list. she did so with some hesitation.
she had discovered a shortcut. at quite regular iicles were published about unsolved murders, and in a sunday supplement to the evening neer she had found an arti 1999 with the headli
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