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Charlie Donlea

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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: 4.16 · 672,771 ratings · 53,628 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Twenty Years Later 4.18 avg rating — 168,655 ratings — published 2021 — 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 Girl Who Was Taken 4.17 avg rating — 163,551 ratings — published 2017 — 47 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 — 93,651 ratings — published 2018 — 3 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 4.15 avg rating — 83,579 ratings — published 2023 — 27 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 4.11 avg rating — 55,330 ratings — published 2016	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 — 33,217 ratings — published 2019 — 6 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 4.18 avg rating — 30,776 ratings — published 2024 — 23 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) 4.15 avg rating — 27,117 ratings — published 2020 — 2 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 4.24 avg rating — 14,330 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Twenty Years Later: Sneak Peek 4.29 avg rating — 520 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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September 2024 Group Read: Crime on Campus

The Teacher by Freida McFadden

61 votes 22.6%

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

48 votes 17.8%

The Suicide House by Charlie Donlea

31 votes 11.5%

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

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The Likeness by Tana French

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Confessions by Kanae Minato

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College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight by Shawn Cohen

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Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

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Death in a Tenured Position by Amanda Cross

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