Charlie Donlea · Book 6

Twenty Years Later

Published
28 December 2021
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9781496727169
Type
novel
Cover of Twenty Years Later

About this book

Twenty Years Later, published in 2021 and running 368 pages, threads a 9/11 mystery through a modern murder case -- one of Donlea's most celebrated hooks and, for many readers, an ideal entry point into his catalogue.

Key facts about Twenty Years Later

Charlie Donlea wrote Twenty Years Later, a novel on our list. It has been out since 28 December 2021. The book has 368 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781496727169 to find the main one.

Twenty Years Later is book 6 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

Twenty Years Later is book 6 in the Charlie Donlea series. It follows The Suicide House. It is followed by Those Empty Eyes. 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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