They were, the two of them, cheerfully waiting out an old woman’s death, like people waiting for a slow train, so that they could rob her corpse.

Chapter 13 — Vance and Cole

But the true horror was older than Miami, and I found it when I cross-referenced the older deposits in Evelyn’s ledger against the archive of Julian’s synced emails.

For four years, irregular lump sums had been flowing into a secondary account of Evelyn’s.

A hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Two hundred and fifty thousand.