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Erica gets a big fright when she checks on Maja and finds her cot empty. Dan, her friend, is there with her, and when they start looking through the house, Dan finds Maja outside on the doorstep and her shirt is smeared with ash and soot. Patrik rushes home when Dan calls him, and he realises that the ash must be the same found in Sara’s lungs and the other boy’s mouth and shirt. So what does this mean? Has someone targeted Maja because Patrik is her father? Who is doing this to little children? What is the deal with the ash?
Patrik still doesn’t know if Kaj is involved in Sara’s murder, but he is definitely involved in child pornography. As a consequence of his actions, a fourteen-year-old boy, Sebastian, hangs himself and leaves a suicide note. We don’t know yet what the note says, but what we do know is that Sebastian looked up on Kaj. Apparently, Kaj worked with teenagers, but it seems that his interest was not as wholesome as people believed.
Another suspect has been added to the list. Niclas’s father is the old man who scared Sara, and when Niclas learns about it, he goes to demand an explanation. Arne claims that he only wanted to see if the girl had some likeness to his side of the family, but he found a cheeky little girl, who stick her tongue at him, so he angry and called her the devil’s spawn and shook her. Asta, his wife, is shocked to find out how far her husband can go, so after the police and her son go, she decides that she has had enough of this tyrannical husband of hers and decides to leave him.
Niclas and Charlotte has come forward to explain something to Patrik. Niclas still maintains that he was with Jeanette that day, but the woman just lied in revenge because he has finished the relationship. Apart from that, he and Charlotte explain that Albin’s injuries were caused by Sara. The little girl had DAMP, a deficit in attention and was prone to tantrums and rage. They thought that with the arrival of her brother, she would calm, but things went from bad to worse, and whenever she was in one of her mood, she took it out on her brother, who got the brunt of her instability. Charlotte and Niclas have all the reports they got from the experts detailing Sara’s condition and her tendency to violent outbursts. So it seems that Niclas is out of suspicion.
The character that is surely stupid in this novel is Ernst Lundgren. First, he doesn’t report the call from the Goteborg police about their suspicions that Kaj was involved in child pornography. And now the stupid man got it in his mind that Morgan is the murderer. So without consulting Patrik, he goes to see Morgan and tricks him into accompanying him to the station. He thinks that he will get brownie points for this, but from the first he has broken all the rules. Morgan gets very nervous when Ernst locks him in an interview room and accuses him of killing Sara. Then Ernst thinks that he will give Morgan some minutes to sweat, and when he is gone, Morgan jumps out of the window and runs away, but unluckily, as he is running, a van knocks him down. I just hope that the young man will eventually be okay. If he is dead, Ernst is going to have very serious problems.
In the sections about the past, Agnes is still doing as she pleases. After stealing the little girl, she makes her life miserable just because the girl has a tendency to get fat. Agnes beats her up and hits her with a belt. In Sweden she meets someone and marries him. Äke is good to the little girl, who Agnes has called Mary, but when she realises that she might lose the girl to him, she starts poisoning her against Äke, telling her that he is a horrible man and he is the one who forces her to beat her up. So Mary grows up in a similar kind of monster as Agnes. I am horrified. Agnes is a pure devil. How can someone be so insensitive and cruel? Agnes doesn’t love her husband but he is just one who could give her an easier life, but she still has affairs. Actually, he starts seeing Äke’s best friend, who is also married.
Äke eventually dies, but I have a feeling that somehow his death is not natural or accidental. On the day of the funeral we see that Mary is there, but her thoughts are strange and really creepy. Maybe she killed her stepfather. I think that Mary could well be Lillian, but I don’t know why she has a different name. Lillian’s first husband died after he wanted a divorce. Stig is also sick and now he has been rushed to hospital when he felt sicker than normal, and we learn that he had also considered leaving Lillian before falling ill. So if Lillian is Mary and is responsible for her stepfather’s and first husband’s deaths, does it mean that she killed her granddaughter? But why? Because the girl was a pain? And what about the thing about the ash? What is that?
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