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Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Ashley Kalagian Blunt writes suspenseful fiction. Her books include Dark Mode, Cold Truth, and Like, Follow, Die.
Dark Mode
Reagan Carsen keeps her life deliberately offline. She has no smartphone, no social media, and a good reason for her caution that she keeps to herself. She runs a small plant shop in Sydney and wants only to be left alone — until she discovers a woman's mutilated body staged in the alley behind her store, arranged in a way that echoes the notorious Black Dahlia murder.
As more bodies appear and the police treat Reagan herself with suspicion, she's forced back into the digital world she fled, hunting a killer whose trail runs through the darkest corners of the internet — incel forums, doxxing rings, and the machinery of online hate.
Ashley Kalagian Blunt's twisty psychological thriller is a claustrophobic, of-the-moment story about privacy, surveillance, and the price of living in a world where nothing can truly be deleted.
A Sydney plant-shop owner who lives offline and finds a body behind her store.