Charlie Donlea

Charlie Donlea is an American author of suspense thrillers. Born and raised in Chicago, where he still lives with his family, he has said he was twenty when he read John Grisham's The Firm and realised he would one day write thrillers. His debut, Summit Lake, drew on fishing trips with his father to remote Canadian lakes.

His books include Summit Lake, The Girl Who Was Taken, Don't Believe It, Some Choose Darkness, The Suicide House, Those Empty Eyes, Twenty Years Later, Long Time Gone and Guess Again. They have been translated into more than 25 languages.