THE MAFIA BOSS WALKED INTO THE HOSPITAL WITH HIS NEW LOVER-THEN FROZE WHEN HE SAW THE WOMAN HE ABANDONED DYING WITH HIS CHILD

into the computer, then paused.

“She didn’t list you,” she said.

“I know.”

“She listed a Mrs. Althea March as her emergency contact.”

His throat tightened.

Althea.

Brin’s former landlady. A retired piano teacher with a spine of iron and a tongue sharp enough to draw blood. Cormack had met her only once, briefly, when he sent someone to deliver boxes Brin continue reading …