Set ten years in the future, in a United Kingdom where the death penalty has been reintroduced. DI Callum Frasier, nicknamed Krishna, is a cop with a reputation for being able to break anyone.
When the Beckett family is found murdered in their London home – mother, father, and three young daughters dead, their ten-year-old son bound but alive – Detective Callum Fraser faces the darkest case of his career.
A killer who didn’t care about the evidence he left behind. No forced entry. Just one boy, drugged and marked with a symbol only a madman, or a zealot, could have drawn. As fear spreads across the city and public pressure mounts, Fraser and his team must unravel the ritualistic threads of a murder that feels more like a message.
But even as the case twists deeper into psychological horror, it’s not just the killer’s mind they must understand. It’s the survivors’. At the heart of it all is Fiona, Callum’s younger partner, with instincts that defy training, and Dylan, the boy who saw too much and remembers too little.
As the killings link to a cold case, the killer’s purpose comes into focus, the team begins to realise: this isn’t just one family’s tragedy. It’s a reckoning. And it’s only just begun.
Darkly lyrical, emotionally devastating, and razor-sharp in its portrayal of justice, power, and the meaning of survival, The Men With Broken Faces is a psychological thriller for readers who crave depth with their dread.