A Shadow in Summer (Long Price Quartet, #1)

by Daniel Abraham

Every time he thought he’d reached the last crime he’d be called upon to commit, one more appeared behind it.

To hear it told now, he had been the most selfless and open-handed of men. Death had improved him. It was to be expected.

“Don’t leave me,” she said, hardly more than a whisper. “Where would I go,” he said, his tone gentle to hide that his answer was also a question.