Don't Believe It
- Published
- 29 May 2018
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780786042210
- Type
- novel
About this book
Don't Believe It, running 400 pages, followed The Girl Who Was Taken in 2018. Donlea continues his focus on the machinery of true-crime media -- documentaries, podcasts, tabloid infamy -- that recurs throughout his catalogue.
Key facts about Don't Believe It
Don't Believe It is a novel by Charlie Donlea. Readers have had it since 29 May 2018. It runs to 400 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Don't Believe It. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780786042210 to find the main one.
Don't Believe It is book 3 of 10 in the Charlie Donlea series. The series has 9 published books, while 1 more has an announced date. However, the series starts with Summit Lake (2016).
Guess Again is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 29 July 2025. Meanwhile, Behind Every Face comes next, with an announced date of 26 January 2027.
That series sits on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, Guess Again is the latest published Charlie Donlea book on file, from 29 July 2025. The next announced Charlie Donlea release is due on 26 January 2027, so there is still more to come.
About Charlie Donlea
Charlie Donlea is a USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of suspense thrillers, born and raised in Chicago, where he still lives with his wife and two children. A self-described "late bloomer" who didn't read his first novel until age twenty (John Grisham's The Firm), he decided then that he would someday write thrillers himself, eventually debuting with Summit Lake (2016). See every Charlie Donlea book in order.
Its place in Charlie Donlea
Don't Believe It is book 3 in the Charlie Donlea series. It follows The Girl Who Was Taken. It is followed by Some Choose Darkness. See the full Charlie Donlea reading order.
Charlie Donlea writes twisty, cleanly-engineered standalone thrillers — the kind built around one irresistible hook and a final-act reversal that recontextualizes everything you've read. A Chicago native, he debuted with Summit Lake (2016), about a TV journalist picking apart the murder of a law student in a North Carolina mountain town, and has delivered a book roughly every year since. His recurring obsessions: cold cases reopened by outsiders, the machinery of true-crime media (documentaries, podcasts, tabloid…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786042210
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781496737007
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781664735859