The Drowning: A Submerged Truth. A Resurfaced Fear | From the bestselling author of That Night
Nidhi Upadhyay, bestselling author of That Night, returns with a thriller that burrows under your skin and refuses to leave. At its centre is Viji, a software engineer shattered by the death of her twins, who finds herself accused of an act almost too horrific to comprehend: the drowning of her closest friend Neha's infant. ASP Kanika, carrying her own private grief, takes on the case, only to find it pulling her somewhere far darker than she anticipated. Viji's unsettling silence gives nothing away. She's discovered in a trance, holding the lifeless child, while Neha has simply vanished. It's a scene that logic can't explain. The evidence points, uncomfortably, towards black magic and Viji's desperate wish to bring her twins back. But the story doesn't stop there. Four pregnant women have gone missing in the same week, each disappearance marked by a blood-smeared symbol, sinister and unexplained. When Neha's mutilated body surfaces, bearing that same grotesque mark, Kanika begins to suspect she isn't hunting an ordinary killer at all. The investigation draws her into a world of corrupt tantric ritual, and a question that genuinely unsettles: has she stumbled upon a murderer, or disturbed something ancient and far beyond human reckoning? More pressing still, how long before whatever she's facing turns its attention towards her? Upadhyay writes with real menace, and this one gets under your skin.
- Author: Nidhi Upadhyay
- Publisher: Ebury Press
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-0143460251
- Pages: 320 pages