Books by Charlie Donlea and Complete Book Reviews
Charlie Donlea. Kensington, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0098-8
Horrible things happen in Conlea’s uneven debut, starting with the murder of first-year law student Becca Eckersley in her family’s stilt house in the Blue Ridge Mountains tourist town of Summit Lake, N.C. Penn Courtney, the editor of Events...
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Charlie Donlea. Kensington, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0100-8
In this fast-moving page-turner from Donlea (Summit Lake), fledgling forensic pathologist Livia Cutty is determined to find answers about the fate of her missing sister, Nicole, who vanished from a high school beach party in Emerson Bay, N.C., a...
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Charlie Donlea. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1380-3
New York producer Sidney Ryan, the heroine of this riveting if flawed novel from Donlea (The Girl Who Was Taken), is producing a documentary TV series about Grace Sebold, an American medical student who has spent 10 years in prison in St. Lucia for...
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Charlie Donlea. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1381-0
This engrossing novel from Donlea (Don’t Believe It) pits forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore against a smart serial killer. In Chicago in the summer of 1979, five young women disappear, all of them victims of a man known as the Thief. They’re...
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Charlie Donlea. Kensington, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2715-2
Donlea’s gripping sequel to 2019’s Some Choose Darkness finds Chicago forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore, who specializes in cold case homicides, investigating a string of bizarre deaths at a prestigious Indiana prep school. A year after two...
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Charlie Donlea. Kensington, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2716-9
The murder of wildly successful author Cameron Young in 2001 drives this enjoyable if less than credible thriller from Donlea (The Suicide House). The primary suspect in Young’s headline-grabbing death was Victoria Ford, but before she could be...
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Charlie Donlea. Kensington, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2717-6
In 2013, when Alexandra Quinlan, the appealing heroine of this excellent thriller from Donlea (Summit Lake), was 17, she hid as her parents and 13-year-old brother were murdered by an intruder in their McIntosh, Va., home. Alexandra earned the...
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