Charlie Donlea · Book 7

Those Empty Eyes

Published
28 February 2023
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781804364666
Type
novel
Cover of Those Empty Eyes

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.

Key facts about Those Empty Eyes

Charlie Donlea wrote Those Empty Eyes, a novel on our list. It has been out since 28 February 2023. The book has 384 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781804364666 to find the main one.

Those Empty Eyes is book 7 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

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…

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