In Kanyakumari, the most dangerous man is the one everyone calls good.
Twelve men are dead. Each one found composed, peaceful - as though they simply fell asleep. Around each neck, a small laminated card bearing a single Tamil word: நல்லவன். Nallavan. Good man.
No forced entry. No witnesses. No motive the police can name.
Sub-Inspector Kavitha Rajendran is the only woman in the homicide wing of Nagercoil Police Station - a posting she fought nine years to earn. She is methodical, relentless, and very good at reading the things people leave behind. As she moves through the sun-bleached streets of Kanyakumari - past ancient temples, colonial churches, fishing villages, and the southernmost shore where three oceans converge - she begins to see a pattern beneath the murders that no official file will confirm.
The victims were beloved. Schoolteachers. Bank officers. A churchman. An orphanage founder. Pillars of one of India's most literate, most celebrated districts.
They were also hiding something that the system had known about - and chosen to forget.
The killer is not hiding. The killer is leaving a record.
The Good Men of Kanyakumari is a dark, literary psychological thriller set against the extraordinary geography and culture of Tamil Nadu's southernmost district. It is a novel about reputation, silence, and what happens when a community's definition of a good man is finally, irrevocably, tested.