The Lie Between Stations: A Monsoon Mystery This Monsoon

By Adeeba Rashid

When eighteen-year-old freelance translator Navya Pillai is tagged in a photograph from a night she cannot remember, she is pulled into the suffocating silence of a Kochi artists colony where everyone agrees on a version of events that cannot be true. A missing student, a scholarship programme hiding an illegal behavioural study, and a stolen handwritten timeline force Navya to question every friendship and every face around her. With monsoon rain sealing the colony off from the outside world, she has one chance to expose the truth at a live public event before the institution buries it again. In a place built on creativity and reputation, the most dangerous lie is the one everyone has agreed to tell.