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Spoiler: Teije's Former Flame?


So I didn't read the book but I was wondering if Teije's former girlfriend was the hacked up corpse they found in the water? Anyone know from the book? When Lucy initially broke into the locked file cabinet her facial expressions were became alarming as she viewed the former girlfriend's facial expressions becoming more concerningly subdued, most likely due to Teije's increasing obsessiveness. All three of Teije's female interests followed that same pattern in his photographs??? And Teije did say she disappeared and he never heard from her again. Some of the sound was difficult for me to understand so I might have missed something. I certainly could not understand what Lucy said about her friend's father and cider??? If the cops thought Teije might have killed Lily why didn't they search his home?

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The story about Lucy's friend's father was about how she lost her virginity. When she was 14 she went to her friend's house but she wasn't there. The father invited her in and gave her his home-made vodka (it wasn't cider in the translation that I saw). She doesn't tell the details of what happened afterwards, but presumably he got her drunk and seduced or raped her. Later she found out she was pregnant and told him, and he ended up dying in what may or may not have been a suicide. In the end it turned out she wasn't pregnant after all.

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Thanks but what about Teije's former girlfriend being the dead body in the water?

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Sorry, can't help you there - I haven't read the book.

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