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Charlie Donlea

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Suspense, Thriller, Crime

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Charlie Donlea is the USA TODAY, IndieBound, and #1 Internationally bestselling author of critically acclaimed, propulsive thrillers including THE GIRL WHO WAS TAKEN, DON'T BELIEVE IT, TWENTY YEARS LATER, and THOSE EMPTY EYES. His ninth thriller, GUESS AGAIN, is out now.

Published in 40 countries and translated into twenty-five languages, his books have sold nearly 3 million copies in the U.S. alone.

He spends a part of each year fishing with his father in the far reaches of Canada, where the roads end and lakes are accessible only by floatplane. These majestic trips to “God’s Country” inspired the settings for his novels Summit Lake and GUESS AGAIN, coming in August 2025.

He resides in Chicago with his wife and two children.

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Average rating: 4.15 · 814,151 ratings · 65,767 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors

	Twenty Years Later 4.17 avg rating — 190,665 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Who Was Taken 4.16 avg rating — 186,485 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Those Empty Eyes 4.14 avg rating — 102,474 ratings — published 2023 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Believe It 4.10 avg rating — 101,333 ratings — published 2018 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summit Lake 4.10 avg rating — 63,897 ratings — published 2016 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guess Again 4.15 avg rating — 46,307 ratings — published 2025 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long Time Gone 4.16 avg rating — 45,604 ratings — published 2024 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Choose Darkness (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 40,932 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Suicide House (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 33,159 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twenty Years Later: Sneak Peek 4.30 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Guess Again releases on July 29th. It has been described as The Silence of the Lambs meets Cruel Summer. I wrote it so that each chapter contains clues for the reader to discover so they can work side by side with the main character to figure out the final twist before they get to the last page.

If you read closely, maybe you'll guess the surprise ending correctly. Good luck...

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“No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.”
― Charlie Donlea, Summit Lake

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“A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

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“My parents wanted their daughter back, and I haven't had the courage to tell them she's long gone. Haven't found a way to break it to them that that girl doesn't exist anymore.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

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Polls

October BoTM Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 move onto 2nd poll

The Paper Palace

by Miranda Cowley Heller

8 votes, 28.6%

Twenty Years Later

by Charlie Donlea

4 votes, 14.3%

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich

3 votes, 10.7%

The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell

by William Klaber

3 votes, 10.7%

A History of Wild Places

by Shea Ernshaw

3 votes, 10.7%

The Witches of New York

by Ami McKay

2 votes, 7.1%

The Unintentional Time Traveler

by Everett Maroon

2 votes, 7.1%

When Ghosts Come Home

by Wiley Cash

2 votes, 7.1%

Cozy Up To Death

by Colin Conway

1 vote, 3.6%

Flight of the Sparrow

by Amy Belding Brown

0 votes, 0.0%

28 total votes

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