Ashley Kalagian Blunt presents Cold Truth

We welcome back Ashely Kalagian Blunt for this in-conversation with local author Dinuka Mckenzie.

Cold Truth is the story of Harlow Close who has made a career as an influencer uncovering the secrets of Winnipeg, dubbed ‘North America’s strangest city’. Yet it’s not just the frigid winters and geographic seclusion that render Winnipeg peculiar.

When Harlow’s father mysteriously disappears amid a brutal cold snap, suspicions and foul play arise.
As she struggles to uncover what happened to her father, she is forced to question everything and everyone around her – including herself.

Ashely Kalagian Blunt writes to expose the myriad ways our technology makes us vulnerable.  She is the number one bestselling author of Dark Mode, a psychological thriller published in multiple territories and languages. Dark Mode was shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year, and was voted number 20 in the Better Reading Top 100.

Dinuka McKenzie is an Australian writer and the author of the Detective Kate Miles crime series, The Torrent, Taken and Tipping Point, published in Australia and the UK. She is the winner of the 2020 HarperCollins Australia Banjo Prize. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, the Bad Sydney Crime Danger Awards, and longlisted for the Richell Prize. Her short fiction appeared in the 2022 Dark Deeds Down Under Crime and Thriller Anthology. Dinuka lives with her family in Southern Sydney on Dharawal country.

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