Summary

Olof had the feeling that people were watching him. Ever since he was in juvenile detention, he had learned not to trust anyone.

Sitting in the house, Olof thought about his childhood. He could feel Sven’s footsteps “stomping across the floor upstairs” (71). He heard the footsteps of the police on the stairs, too. He remembered them showing him and his family the yellow cardigan they had found in a box under his bed. It was the sweater Lina was wearing “when she disappeared” (72, Alsterdal’s italics).

After a tip from Sven’s acquaintances about his interest in horse racing, Eira and August visited the tracks. While there, they spoke to a man who said he had heard that someone had told Sven about another man, Adam Vide, who had committed a crime similar to Olof’s. The man assumed this person had...