Bestselling Sydney author and podcaster Ashley Kalagian Blunt garnered plenty of well-deserved attention and awards listings for her first full length crime thriller, Dark Mode, a chilling tale of stalking, the dark web, and the fragility of privacy in a digital age. Now she returns to the frigid climes of her childhood in her twisting new thriller, Cold Truth.
Harlow Close is a tour operator and social media influencer who showcases the secrets of Winnipeg, ‘North America’s strangest city’. Her world is upturned when her loving father vanishes from his home amid a brutal winter. Who would want to harm her father? Why did the police send two detectives and a forensics team, only to then drag their feet with the investigation, downplaying any danger? As Harlow launches her own search, helped and hindered by her unreliable younger sister, Blaise, she’s forced to confront the fact that people she knows, even loves, may know what has happened and be gaslighting her.
Despite the isolated setting of a peculiar city encircled by snow-covered prairies, Cold Truth is a markedly modern tale, where timeless drivers of greed, envy and revenge are supercharged by cryptocurrency, the dark web and other tech. Blunt crafts a harrowing thrill ride in minus 40 temperatures; a chilling, propulsive tale with plenty of heart.
Reviewed by Craig Sisterson
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
shley Kalagian Blunt is a writer, speaker and podcaster. Her number one bestselling psychological thriller, Dark Mode, is out now in Australia/NZ, the UK, Germany and South Korea. It was shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year, the Danger Awards Best Crime Debut, and the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction.
She is the author of two previous books, How to Be Australian, a memoir, and My Name Is Revenge, a thriller novella and collected essays. Her writing appears widely across Australian and international publications.
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