The Girl Who Was Taken
- Published
- 25 April 2017
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9781496701008
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Girl Who Was Taken precedes Don't Believe It in Donlea's catalogue, published in 2017. A forensic pathologist autopsies her way toward the truth of her sister's abduction, one of the recurring cold-case hooks that define his work.
Key facts about The Girl Who Was Taken
The Girl Who Was Taken is a novel by Charlie Donlea. Readers have had it since 25 April 2017. It runs to 352 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Girl Who Was Taken. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781496701008 to find the main one.
The Girl Who Was Taken is book 2 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
The Girl Who Was Taken is book 2 in the Charlie Donlea series. It follows Summit Lake. It is followed by Don't Believe It. 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 9781496701008
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786041442
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781496736987