Stieg couldn’t help but see the parallels to the Palme murder investigation—the arguing back and forth between the police and the prosecutors, the lack of any results to show from the investigation, and Hans Holmér’s press conferences, complete with pretentious statements about lights being turned on and off in tunnels along with numerous Churchill quotations. The only metaphor that really fit the Palme investigation was that it, too, had suffered a massive meltdown.
