Charlie Donlea · Book 1

Summit Lake

Published
23 February 2016
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9780786039180
Type
novel
Cover of Summit Lake

About this book

Summit Lake, published in 2016 at 320 pages, is Charlie Donlea's Chicago-set debut, following a TV journalist picking apart the murder of a law student in a North Carolina mountain town. It launched a nearly annual run of twisty, cleanly-engineered standalone thrillers.

Key facts about Summit Lake

Charlie Donlea wrote Summit Lake, a novel on our list. It has been out since 23 February 2016. The book has 320 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780786039180 to find the main one.

Summit Lake is book 1 of 10 in the Charlie Donlea series. The series has 9 published books, while 1 more has an announced date. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

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

Summit Lake is book 1 in the Charlie Donlea series. It is followed by The Girl Who Was Taken. 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…

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