THE SILENCE BENEATH
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The Silence Beneath
When a young detective's first solo case leads him to a string of victims with their mouths sewn shut and strange whispering recorders left behind, Detective Karthik V.P. is thrust into a chilling hunt for a serial killer the city calls The Whisperer.
But as cryptic numbers appear at each scene and the whispers grow disturbingly familiar, Karthik begins to realize the killer's game isn't random - it's personal.
In a race against time, every clue pulls him deeper into a darkness where the line between hunter and hunted blurs, and the final truth will shatter everything he thought he knew.
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