About SILENCE: A Psychological Thriller Novella
What if your inner voice was not your own?
When the world wakes one morning to a silence
inside every human mind, Evelyn Hartman is the
only one who can still think in complete sentences.
But the voice she hears is not hers.
It describes her movements before she makes them.
It knows things she has never told anyone.
It calls her by name.
A literary psychological thriller for readers of
Dark Matter, The Midnight Library, and
The Silent Patient.
77 pages. Book 1 of The Hartman Sequence.
FREE on Amazon Kindle: May 29-31, 2026.
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Author Bio:
David Blackwood writes literary psychological
thrillers about the spaces between memory and
identity — books that ask what we owe to the
versions of ourselves we cannot remember.
His debut novella SILENCE is the first book in
The Hartman Sequence. His influences include
Cormac McCarthy, Donna Tartt, and Blake Crouch.
He lives in the Pacific Northwest with three cats
named after Wittgenstein concepts and a growing
collection of vintage typewriters. He organizes
his library by the temperature of the writing.