Carly Black
Stories about the things people bury, and what happens when they surface. Psychological thrillers and horror that get under your skin and stay there.
Bloodlines
⚠️ Warning: Aspects of this book are quite dark. See content warnings below.
Alyssa Carter just wanted to fill in the blanks on her family tree. A DNA test was supposed to offer roots, not rot.
When the results arrive, they shatter everything she thought she knew about herself. Her frantic research leads her down a dark path that starts with the FBI at her door, asking questions about a serial killer she's never heard of. But the DNA doesn't lie. The connection is real.
The deeper Alyssa digs, the more the past unearths itself. Gruesome crimes staged like theater. Bodies left as messages. A family she never knew existed.
But someone is watching. And they don't want her to find the truth.
For readers who crave the twisted family dynamics of Sharp Objects, the moral ambiguity of Gone Girl, and the slow-burn dread of The Good Girl.
- Multiple murders
- Graphic crime scenes
- Body horror
- Blood and gore
- Child sexual abuse (past)
- Physical abuse of children (past)
- Toddler death (past)
- Escalating stalking
- Home invasion elements
- Paranoia and identity crisis
- Gaslighting
- Infidelity
- Alcoholic parent
- Religious trauma
- Adoption trauma
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Behind the Darkness
Carly Black is a Kentucky author who writes psychological thrillers, mysteries, and horror. Stories about the rot that grows in quiet places, the secrets families keep, and what it costs to finally look.
She's the darker half of the Carly B Writes duo, and she's been telling dark stories her whole life. She just started writing them down. The result is fiction that trusts readers to sit with difficult things, because the best thrillers don't look away.
When she's not writing, she's probably reading the kind of book that makes her check her door locks.