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Charlie Donlea · Book 1

Summit Lake

by Charlie Donlea

Published
23 February 2016
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9780786039180
Type
novel

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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.

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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