When our whole lives are online, how can we keep things private… and safe?
Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click at a time.
Join us as we speak with author Ashley Kalagian Blunt about online misogyny, radicalisation, narcissism and psychopathy. And the power of true crime.
Show Notes
About Dark Mode
Is it paranoia – or is someone watching?
For years, Reagan Carsen has kept her life offline. No socials. No internet presence. No photos. Safe.
Until the day she stumbles on a shocking murder in a Sydney laneway. The victim looks just like her.
Coincidence?
As more murders shake the city and she’s increasingly drawn out from hiding, Reagan is forced to confront her greatest fear.
She’s been found.
A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click at a time.
Released 2023 with Ultimo Press. Visit Ashley’s website for a book club pack all about Dark Mode.
About the author
Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of How to Be Australian and My Name Is Revenge, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards and was a finalist in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award. Her writing appears in the Sydney Morning Herald, Overland, Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings and more. Ashley teaches creative writing and co-hosts James and Ashley Stay at Home, a podcast about writing, creativity and health. Originally from Canada, she has lived and worked in South Korea, Peru and Mexico.
Find Ashley via her website, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.
Ashley’s resources and recommendations
- Some cases that inspired the book: Dennis Rader (the BTK killer); Keith Jesperson (the Happy Face Killer); A Mother’s Reckoning (relating to the Columbine murders); H.H. Holmes (con artist and serial killer)
- Authors that inspired Dark Mode: Candice Fox, JP Pomare, & Tana French
- Book recs: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson and Madukka the River Serpant by Julie Janson
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