“Are you all right, Mademoiselle?” a concerned voice asked.
Colette got to her feet again. She declined the woman’s help. “I’ll be fine,” she said.
“Are you sure?”
Colette nodded and turned her back on the old woman. She gazed up at the house. “There,” she whispered quietly to herself.
Confused, the lady stared at the stranger in worn clothes as she walked towards the only house on the hill.
The house of the Rousseau family.
Author’s note
Prime Minister Olof Palme
was shot down on the streets of Stockholm on 28 February 1986. The murder investigation remains open.
The Special Investigation Unit, or RSU
, is a fictional organ-
ization.