‘Edlunds dental surgery is shut,’ I say. ‘They’re all out searching. Julia and Tobias, Eva and Sven. All out.’

‘Could try in there,’ says the Sheriff, pointing his rifle in the direction of Mind Games.

‘Gaming will take my mind off the pain, but I need to fix the root cause, pardon the pun.’

‘You mean soda pops?’

‘I mean root-canal work.’

‘That’s what I’m talking about. David the twin done completed three years before he quit to set up that computer-game club.’

‘Who did?’

‘Young David. His brother never got the grades, not such a bright spark, that one, but David’s a clever boy. He can’t fix your problem maybe, but he can take a look for you. He fixed a filling for me sometime last year when the Edlunds were off at their fancy island house out East.’

‘He did?’

‘They sell the emergency filling kits in the pharmacy next door. David helped me out free of charge, he did. Said he needed the practice and then he never even charged me. Said it was absolutely his pleasure.’

47

I make my way over to Mind Games.

Outside the front door is a young teen wearing a hoodie. She’s buying roleplay cards from an older girl. I think they’re Luka Kodro’s kids, one of them at least. The younger girl passes the older girl a 500 kronor note. The older one passes her two cards.

My phone rings and the girls notice me and walk away.

‘Tuva Moodyson.’

‘It’s me,’ says Sebastian. ‘Listen. I talked to Gavrik Hotel. The owner owes me a favour. Asked about guests who checked in today and described the Europol woman but she told me they only had one guest check in, so no need to describe her.’

I move so my back is to Mind Games. I watch the town square, as clean and shiny as a movie set. Like nothing bad ever happened here.

‘Woman’s name is Erika Smith.’

‘Hotel gave that up?’

‘Like I say, they owed me. She’s based out of Jonkoping.’

‘I’m listening.’

‘I’ve been researching her past cases, where her Instagram posts have been sent from, landmarks, Facebook check-ins, trying to figure out what she’s working on.’

‘Good.’

‘Not much to go on, she’s quite discreet. But there is a recurring theme, from interviews and her social media. She’s spent a lot of time this past year in Estonia. I’m guessing she’s working on something connecting Estonia and Sweden.’

‘Wait a minute.’

I take the phone from my ear and turn it on to speaker mode.

‘You there?’ he says.

‘Wait.’

I search for ‘Estonia’ in the notes function on my phone. There is a link somewhere. I heard someone mention that country this past week.

‘Are you still there, Tuva?’

Luka Kodro walks past me holding hands with one of his daughters, the one with two new cards.