Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

by Tamsyn Muir

Someone close by said softly, “So it’s real,” just as someone else said, “What is he doing?” It was Harrow who said, without rancour but also without joy: “Silas Octakiseron is a soul siphoner.” By this point Colum the Eighth looked greyscale.