Steven Hale is a respected grief therapist in St Albans—intelligent, composed, and unsettlingly precise. He understands human emotion with clinical brilliance, able to read pain, fear, love, and loss in others with near-perfect accuracy. But what Steven hides is far more disturbing: he does not truly feel what other people feel. Where others are guided by empathy, guilt, or emotional instinct, Steven operates through observation, structure, and control. Calm on the surface and terrifyingly self-aware beneath it, he is a man studying humanity from the outside—while quietly questioning what might happen if the rules holding him in place begin to shift.

 

In a town glowing with Christmas lights, warmth, and ordinary human connection, Dr Steven Hale stands untouched by it all. Brilliant, respected, and emotionally unreadable, he has built his life on routine, restraint, and the careful study of feelings he cannot share. But when a body is discovered in Verulamium Park, and Steven’s fascination with the emotional lives of others begins to sharpen into something far more dangerous, the line between observer and threat starts to blur. Through the Eyes of a Killer is a chilling psychological thriller about empathy, control, and the quiet horror of a man who understands human emotion perfectly… but feels none of it.