Benefit Sanction Murders: Book Four - A DS Rose Gallagher Novel

De: Jay Tarzwell

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When benefits assessors and tribunal judges start dying in Belfast, each murder mirrors the disability they once dismissed as fraud. An assessor who declared a blind woman "functional" is found with her eyes removed, a rejected application left at the scene. A judge who ruled a wheelchair user "mobile enough to work" dies with his spine severed. A Department for Communities officer who set aggressive sanctions targets is killed by the same method that claimed a sanctioned claimant.

Detective Sergeant Rose Gallagher recognizes the pattern immediately—this isn't random violence. It's calculated justice, delivered by someone who knows exactly how the benefits system destroys lives. Someone with access to confidential case files. Someone who's been watching, waiting, documenting every death the system refuses to acknowledge.

As Rose digs into Belfast's hidden crisis, she uncovers a nightmare: families bankrupted by benefit denials, disabled claimants dying while appeals sit in bureaucratic limbo for months or years, and a level of institutional cruelty that's driven ordinary people past their breaking point. The bereaved families she interviews share a common thread—rage at a system that valued cost-cutting over human life, and gratitude toward one person who actually seemed to care.

As Rose closes in on the truth, she discovers that this killer isn't seeking revenge for themselves—they're avenging others, executing a mission of justice the system itself refuses to deliver. And in a city where institutional violence has claimed countless lives, Rose must ask herself a question that cuts deeper than any case before: when the system fails to deliver justice, who decides what's murder and what's mercy?

Because the next target is already chosen. And this time, the killer's running out of time to finish what they started.