Previously on the case of the tiny suitcase we've all got individual

reputations and spending you know... Do you have a reputation still? It's gone out the window, isn't it?

Well, I think spending one year on fecal matter is enough, and we can claw back that reputation if we move on to something a bit. A classier.

A crime.

A classy Swedish crime. A tiny three-piece corduroy suit and a suitcase containing nine questionable items were on separate occasions planted on the veranda of our victim's house

in the middle of nowhere.

The victim Christina, not to be confused with Christina Aguilera, is technically my mother-in-law,

and although this presents a significant conflict of interest, I will not be giving up my position as lead detective.

Christina has stated that we must solve this case before she dies in order for her to

literally rest in peace.

Sweden, the land of joy and opportunity, Eber, Volvo, the jorn Borg, Swedish scandy noir, i.e. this podcast. Meatballs.

IKEA.

And my personal favorite,

meatballs at IKEA.

But beneath its shiny meatball covered surface, something sinister is bubbling away.

The emergence of a disturbing concept, the concept of reverse theft.

And only in a place like sinister Sweden

would this concept manifest itself

in the form of a three-piece tiny corduroy soap in a not so tiny suitcase.

And that's where we come in.

I am Detective Lauren Kilby and together with my assistant Karen White House and her assistant

Helen McLaughlin we will be investigating two incredibly serious cases of reverse theft.

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