Charlie Donlea · Book 7
Those Empty Eyes
- Published
- 28 February 2023
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781804364666
- Type
- novel
About this book
Those Empty Eyes, the seventh book in Donlea's catalogue, sits between Twenty Years Later and Long Time Gone, arriving in 2023. It follows a young woman acquitted of slaughtering her family and rebranded by the tabloids as 'Empty Eyes Alexandra,' continuing Donlea's obsession with the machinery of true-crime media.
Its place in Charlie Donlea
Those Empty Eyes is book 7 in the Charlie Donlea series. It follows Twenty Years Later. It is followed by Long Time Gone. 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 9781804364666