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Charlie Donlea

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Charlie Donlea is the USA TODAY and #1 Internationally bestselling author of SUMMIT LAKE, THE GIRL WHO WAS TAKEN, DON'T BELIEVE IT, SOME CHOOSE DARKNESS, THE SUICIDE HOUSE, TWENTY YEARS LATER, and THOSE EMPTY EYES. His eighth thriller, LONG TIME GONE, explores the science of forensic genealogy and will be released in June 2024.

His books have been translated into twenty languages across nearly forty countries. He resides in Chicago with his wife and two children.

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 setting for his first novel, Summit Lake.

Don't Believe It

2024
The novel is a gripping thriller that follows a documentary filmmaker as she delves into a

Summit Lake

2024
In this gripping mystery, a young investigative reporter named Kelsey Castle delves into t

Some Choose Darkness

2024
The novel is a gripping thriller that intertwines the past and present as forensic reconst

The Suicide House

2024
In this gripping thriller, a series of mysterious deaths at an elite boarding school in In

Twenty Years Later

2024
Hiding her own dark past in plain sight, a TV reporter is determined to uncover the truth

The Girl Who Was Taken

2024
Two abducted girls—one who returns, one who doesn’t. The night they go missing, high schoo

Those Empty Eyes

2024
Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself—her name, her appearance, her backstor