章 176: Planning the Arrest

"Signs of forced entry?"

Santina waits while James scans the documents.

"No, the front door was unlocked, and there were bottles of beer on a table in the sala. His television set, his wallet, some money and other valuables were

still in the apartment, so it couldn't have been a burglary. The investigators assumed Gorospe knew the killer, let him in, drank a couple of beers with him. They got drunk, had an argument; one of them ended up dead." He hands the file over to Santina, who quickly flips through it.

"But they never found the

killer?"

"No. There were no witnesses, and all the beer bottles had been wiped clean."

"Did they find the heart?" Mikael asks.

"No," Santina says, still reading the file. "Whoever killed him must have taken it away."

He stands and moves to the whiteboard and its information