‘But nothing,’ she replies. ‘It doesn’t matter what I think about Luna, I will do everything in my power to find out where she is. It’s just not that easy to find a missing person when you have nothing to go on, especially if the person in question wants to stay missing. But I’m going to talk to her family tomorrow. Want to come?’

Leo puts the glass he just picked up down with a bang.

‘Me? Why?’

‘You dated back in the day, right, that’s what you told me. Wouldn’t it be fun to meet your old “parents-in-law”?’

He finally seems to realise she’s kidding and lets out a chortle. Then he turns serious again.

‘I never met them. We were together when we were fourteen, fifteen. We were in same garage band. My first, actually.’

Karen suddenly realises how little she knows about Leo Friis. That he has played in different bands all his life isn’t news, but she always assumed he grew up in Dunker.

‘What? Didn’t she grow up in Ravenby? You lived there, too?’

‘Eight years. Mum married a bloke from there, but then he finally died and we moved back to Dunker.’

‘I thought you and Luna were a couple much later?’

‘We were. Two years later, she left home and looked me up in Dunker. Me and two other guys were, like, sub-subletting this flat, and Luna moved in. I suppose we had some kind of relationship again then, but it was a messy time, and I don’t think either of us was particularly faithful.’

‘Why did she leave home?’

‘I actually don’t know. None of us came from idylls, so we always hung out at other people’s houses. I hardly think she would contact them, but I guess you never know,’ he says and sips his beer.

‘What about the brother? Andreas.’

This time, Leo sets his glass back down slowly.

‘I forgot about him. Is he still alive? From what I recall he was pretty much an alcoholic by the time he was in his teens.’

‘Yeah, he’s hardly an ideal older brother, at least not judging by his criminal record, but she might have contacted him. Either way, I want to talk to him. I’ve tried to call, but he’s not picking up, so I’ll head over there early tomorrow morning and wake him up.’

‘You’re not going alone, are you?’

‘Of course not,’ she lies.

She can’t listen to herself whinge about the lack of resources one more time, doesn’t have it in her to ask her boss for backup yet again. And it brings a small smile to her face to think about how scared Smeed would be if something happened to her because of his idiotic leadership. If it became known that Karen had felt forced to go against regulations and visit Andreas Johanson by herself.