10.Evelyn Archer had spent most of the morning in a catatonia-like state. She had done nothing of what he usually did. It was like she was hypnotised staring at the street outside her windows. No thoughts went through her mind. Minutes passed by even if she did not have any perception of it, it was as the same moment was being repeated over and over. And nothing came to disturb her state of absence from reality.
The older woman simply kept watching a point in front of her, without seeing, hearing, or thinking anything.
With her being the only relative, a young inspector from the police department informed her that her nephew Martyn Trischer, who had been missing for a couple of days, had been found dead in Birgit Hove.
Evelyn didn't even say goodbye to the inspector, and she simply clos
