How I Spend My Days and My Nights

“Alright.” He cleared his throat and adjusted his glasses.

“So Marlene, that's what she calls herself these days?”

I didn’t respond. Unease was crawling down my spine.

“When I knew her, her name was Clara. Clara Maxwell. She never mentioned that?”

Involuntarily I shook my head.

“I met her for the first time more than fifteen years ago. In London. She was a redhead back then.”

“Five seconds,” I said, “You have five seconds. What the hell are you trying to say?”

Two strangers meet in a bar one rainy November night. Their conversation is the starting point for an intricate tale full of lies, doubt - and plans for a murder.

How I Spend My Days and My Nights is a thrilling short story by Swedish crime author Håkan Nesser, well-known from his Van Veeteren crime series.