THE HUSH: JOHN HART

Not my favorite John Hart novel as he swerves into the supernatural, with ghosts, past history, the supernatural, as the dead come back to wreak vengeance on the living, especially in this southern town.  The story moves back and forth between the town, filled with the rational, the lawyers, the sheriff and his deputies and the Hush, where Johnny Merrimon lives alone on his 5000 acres, the mysterious and haunted Hush.  Only Johnny and his childhood friend, Jack, now a lawyer seem to understand The Hush.  When a couple of locals disappear in The Hush, the law gets involved, blaming these disappearances on Johnny.  It's much more complicated than this as the history of the Hush, its treatment of African Americans, their enslavement, haunt the story.