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Meet The Author Charlie Donlea

"Guess Again"
2025-08-21 19:00:00 2025-08-21 20:00:00 America/Chicago Meet The Author Charlie Donlea Highland Park Public Library - Brenner Room

Thursday, August 21
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-08-21 19:00:00 2025-08-21 20:00:00 America/Chicago Meet The Author Charlie Donlea Bestselling author Charlie Donlea makes a special appearance at the Libray to discuss "Guess Again," his engrossing new book. Highland Park Public Library - Brenner Room

Bestselling author Charlie Donlea makes a special appearance at the Libray to discuss "Guess Again," his engrossing new book.

Charlie Donlea makes a special appearance at the Library to discuss his new book!

A missing girl. A woman with a dangerous obsession. A former cop lured back by a killer with a sinister offer. Think you know who is the greatest threat? Guess again. Bestselling author Charlie Donlea’s new novel dives into the long shadow of trauma on a small town, hybristophilia, the allure of evil, and the toll the truth can take on those who hunt for it.

Books will be for sale and the event will conclude with a book signing.

Charlie Donlea is the critically acclaimed, USA Today, Indiebound, and #1 internationally bestselling author of propulsive psychological thrillers including The Girl Who Was Taken, Some Choose Darkness, Twenty Years Later, and Those Empty Eyes. Published in nearly 40 countries and translated into more than a dozen languages, his books have sold more than 1.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Donlea has been praised for his "soaring pace, teasing plot twists" (BookPage) and talent for writing an ending that "makes your jaw drop" (The New York Times Book Review).
 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books & Authors |

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