Queen of Spades - The Spades Quartet

Charles Adamant is back with one kill under his belt. After a conversation with the ever-mysterious, omniscient Aobara about the death of Jack and Sakura's mother, Charles is not convinced that it was an accidental suicide as ruled. With the help of the stranger-turned-confidant, Charles embarks on a journey of discovering the truth, a journey fraught with maniacally vindictive police officers, overzealous state attorneys, mafias and gangs, and a recurring dream. Between assassinations, study sessions, poker games, and tennis matches, Charles faces a murder charge that may well put a halt to his journey. But the closer he gets to answers, the more he needs the help of the very opposition. Only the police and the SA can re-launch an investigation on his late aunt's death; cooperating with them runs the risk of incriminating himself and of compromising their identities. When a senior member of the assassins is accused of his aunt's murder, Charles and his uncle battle to prove his innocence. But, finding himself almost nightly in his brick temple that refuses to set him free, Charles doubts that he is ready physically and, more importantly, emotionally to confront the very root of the answers he has been looking for once he learns that the same senior member may not be so innocent after all.