The Puppet Show (Washington Poe, #1)

by M.W. Craven

Immolation [im-uh-ley-shuh-n] 1. To kill as a religious sacrifice. 2. To kill, especially by fire.

When you didn’t care about your job, the people in authority quickly realised just how little power they had.

Maths had ended for him as soon as they replaced numbers with letters.

‘The glass isn’t half full, Poe. And neither is it half empty.’

‘He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself.’