The Girl in the Fog by Donato Carrisi EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Donato Carrisi
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23 February
Sixty-two days after the disappearance
The night everything changed for ever began with a phone call.
It came at 10.20 on a Monday evening. Outside, it was minus eight
Celsius, and the countryside was shrouded in an icy fog. At that hour,
Flores was snug and warm in bed beside his wife, enjoying an old blackand-white gangster film on TV. Actually, Sophia had dozed off a while
earlier, and the ringing of the telephone didn’t disturb her sleep. She even
appeared oblivious of her husband getting out of bed and dressing.
Flores put on a pair of baggy trousers, a polo neck sweater and his heavy
winter jacket to face that damned fog, which seemed to have wiped out all
of creation, and got ready to go to Avechot’s little hospital, where he had
worked as a psychiatrist for more than forty of his sixty-two years. In all
that time, he had seldom been dragged out of bed for an emergency, let
alone by the police. In this Alpine village, where he had been born and had
always lived, almost nothing happened after sunset. It was as if in such a
place even criminals chose to lead a sober existence, regularly spending
their evenings at home. That was why Flores wondered what could
necessitate his presence at such an unusual hour.
All the police had told him over the phone was that a man had been
arrested following a road accident. Nothing else.
The snow had stopped falling in the afternoon, but it had got colder during
the evening. Flores left the house to be greeted by an unearthly silence.
Everything was still, motionless, as if time had stopped. He felt a shudder
that had nothing to do with the outside temperature – it came from inside.
He started his old Citroën, and had to wait a few seconds for the diesel
engine to warm up properly before he set off. He needed that sound to wipe
out the monotony of the menacing quiet.
The road surface was icy, but it was the snow more than anything that
forced him to keep his speed below twenty kilometres an hour, both his
hands firmly gripping the wheel, his back stooped forward and his face a
few centimetres from the windscreen so that he could make out the sides of
the road. Luckily, he knew the route so well, his mind told him where to go
before his eyes could.
Coming to a crossroads, he chose the direction that led towards the centre
of the village, and at last saw something through the milky blanket. As he
advanced, he had the sensation that everything had slowed down, as if in a
dream. From the depths of the white mantle, intermittent flashes of light
appeared. They seemed to be coming towards him, even though it was he
who was approaching them. A figure emerged out of the fog, making
strange, broad arm movements. As he drew nearer, Flores realised it was
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