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The Hush

The Hush

Gupta, Kapil

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798165611308
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 26 2026
Pages: 372
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Everyone in Hushwaite knows what happened on the night of 20 November 1971.

A thirteen-year-old girl walked up the lonnin to the chapel anniversary tea and never arrived. Her father went after her and never came home. Not one dog in the village barked.

Within a week the police had their monster: Edward Lumsden, the bachelor schoolmaster with his poetry and his lending shelf. Within a year he had confessed, been convicted, and been sent down for the rest of his life. No body was ever found. The case made a young detective's career. The valley closed over it like water, and for fifty years nobody asked another question.

Now somebody is asking.

Tessa Raine has her dead father's notebooks. He was the village policeman in 1971, and he noticed things he never put in a statement. She also has a retired detective, decorated for the case, who is willing, at last, to talk about it.

But the deeper she goes into the archive, the more the evidence begins to behave strangely. A mother who named her daughter's shoe before anyone unwrapped it. A confession that describes a lamp standing where no lamp ever stood. A doctor's car, out on the fell road at midnight, in no log at all. A whole village that remembers, unanimously, a night not one of them could have seen.

And in the old schoolhouse at the top of the fell, a woman in her sixties is making tea for a stranger, and watching her very carefully.

THE HUSH is a novel about the stories small places tell themselves in order to survive, and about what those stories cost the people who could not afford to tell the truth.

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