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Title
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2015 by
Quercus Publishing Ltd
Carmelite House
50 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y 0DZ
An Hachette UK company
Copyright © 2015 Jussi Adler-Olsen
Translation copyright © 2015 William Frost
The moral right of Jussi Adler-Olsen to be
identified as the author of this work has been
asserted in accordance with the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication
may be reproduced or transmitted in any form
or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopy, recording, or any
information storage and retrieval system,
without permission in writing from the publisher.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
HB ISBN 978 1 78429 588 2
TPB ISBN 978 1 78429 583 7
EBOOK ISBN 978 1 78429 589 9
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters,
businesses, organizations, places and events are
either the product of the author’s imagination
or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events or
locales is entirely coincidental.
Dedication
Dedicated to Vibsen and Elisabeth, two strong women
Contents
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Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Prologue
November 20th, 1997
She saw grey hues everywhere. Flickering shadows and gentle darkness covered her like a blanket and kept her warm.
In a dream, she had left her body, hovering in the air like a bird. No, even better, like a butterfly. Like a multicoloured fluttering piece of art, put in the world only to spread happiness and wonder. Like a hovering being high up between heaven and earth whose magic dust could awaken the world to endless love and happiness.
She smiled at the thought. It was so beautiful and pure.
Now the ceaseless darkness above her fought with dim glints like distant stars. It felt good, almost like a pulse conducting the sound of wind and rustling leaves.
She couldn’t move at all but she didn’t want to anyway or she’d wake from the dream, and reality would suddenly kick in, and then the pain would come and who would want that?
Now a myriad of images appeared from life-giving times. Small glimpses of her and her brother hopping out over ............
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