The Cleaner 6: Cleaning Up

By Inger Gammelgaard Madsen

The new information in the case makes Roland Benito re-examine the prison guard's suicide. Now he knows for certain who Uwe Finch really is, and he decides to let Anne Larsen know. She was the one who obtained Uwe Finch's fingerprint, and in the past, Roland has found out that Anne can be of great help in police investigations. Bertram is shocked to find out what has happened to his mum, but suddenly Anne Larsen, the reporter from TV2 East Jutland, shows up. Bertram breaks down in front of Anne, telling her everything, and Anne tells him that they need to get away immediately. But it is too late. When Roland hears about a new death on his car radio, he fears that Anne Larsen might be in danger as well, and tries calling her, but gets no reply. When he receives a phone call, he hopes that it is her, but it turns out to be Leif Skovby, one of the officers in the suicide case. Leif wants to meet with Roland, and what he tells him makes everything clear. Roland gets the officer to help him trace Anne's phone, but will Roland find her before it is too late?The Cleaner is a crime drama in six episodes.-

• Language: English
• Publisher: SAGA Egmont
• Release date: Jul 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9788711936122

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Inger Gammelgaard Madsen

The Cleaner 6: Cleaning Up

Translated by Martin Reib

Saga

The Cleaner 6: Cleaning Up

Translated by

Martin Reib

Original title

Oprydningen

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How come you’re looking at that again? Mark Haldbjerg asked, making Roland’s already tense body give a shudder. He hadn’t heard him come in. Roland had turned up early, because he wanted time to read the coroner’s report concerning the suicide of Julius Habekost again. Karina had gone to Sealand along with Viktor Enevoldsen.

Good morning, Mark. Oh, just checking something, he mumbled.

I see that it concerns Julius Habekost, but that case has been closed, Roland.

Mark hung his jacket on the hall stand and straightened his tie. He would be conducting a press conference today regarding a disciplinary issue he had been investigating alongside Viktor Enevoldsen. A police officer on duty at Emergency Services had responded inappropriately to a citizen who had dialed 112.

I know, but…

Mark looked at his watch and decided that he had enough time for a cup of coffee.

Fancy a cup? he asked from the coffee machine. Roland mumbled something in the affirmative.

Mark put the cup down next to him and sat down on the other side of the desk behind his own computer screen.

By the way, how did your friendly chat with the Commissioner of Police go yesterday afternoon? he asked a bit too cheerfully; it had not been at all cheerful.

Roland had had to come up with a plausible story as to the recovery of the cigarette pack wrapper with Gregor Petrov’s fingerprint, without mentioning Anne Larsen’s role in the matter. When he had let a thought swirl around his head several times during the night, it had become so realistic to him that he could easily present it to the Commissioner without feeling as if he was lying, and that let him save his hide and avoid a reprimand for using the resources of the national police to work on a private matter.

"I’m sure you must have heard about the woman the two