The woman was the third person she had been able to cross off the list of people who’d caught their attention in one way or another when they watched the CCTV tapes. To be honest, they had mostly caught Klippan’s attention. For her part, she considered the whole thing a big waste of time. But she had promised, and being as firmly in his bad graces as she seemed to be after slipping into the Nazi rally without him, she wasn’t going to pick a fight over this, too.

He certainly was cross. So cross, he’d posted a handwritten ‘busy’ sign on his door and was refusing to take her calls. Three times she had tried to call him after bringing Landertz and his son in, and each time he had declined.

One of the times, he’d sent a text saying he was busy and that they’d have to talk later. As though he were the only person in the world with things to get on with.

But she wasn’t going to let him drag her down to his level and act cross back. That was his thing. Besides, she only had the man with the rental car left to check before she could actually make herself useful by sinking her teeth into the Sweden Democrats membership list.

That said, she hadn’t been able to refrain from sneaking a quick peek between interviews. Mostly to reassure herself the USB stick wasn’t empty. And it certainly hadn’t been.

It turned out the party had about eight thousand members nationwide. Approximately two thousand five hundred of them lived in Skåne; narrowing the area down further to just Bjuv and its surrounding municipalities, that number went down to eight hundred and forty-seven people, of which two hundred and nine were women. Since the list included their personal identity numbers, she had been able to filter out anyone under twenty-five or over sixty and finally landed on a list of three hundred and eight names, any of which could turn out to be the man with the smile that appeared before her every time she closed her eyes.

There was no guarantee he was on this particular membership list, but research had shown that even people with more extreme right-wing and even Nazi views often voted for the increasingly mainstream Sweden Democrats in order to secure a first foothold in parliament.

Besides, she was convinced Sievert Landertz had recognized the man in the composite sketch, even though he’d continued strenuously to deny it during his preliminary interview that morning. He’d also threatened to sue them if they didn’t release him immediately, and he would not only sue the police, but her personally for deliberately destroying his political career.