THE GIRLS BEFORE: Kate Alice Marshall in conversation with Charlie Donlea
Schedule
Thu Feb 26 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
5915 6th Ave A, Kenosha, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53140 | Kenosha, WI
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From the bestselling author of "What Lies in the Woods", "No One Can Know", and "A Killing Cold", comes a new novel about a search & rescue expert, a kidnapped woman, and the lost girls who haunt them both.Join Kate Alice Marshall at Blue House Books on Thursday, February 26th, at 6:30 p.m. to discuss her newest release, "The Girls Before". Kate will be chatting all things mystery and thriller with Midwest psychological thriller author Charlie Donlea ("Guess Again"), answering questions from the audience, and signing books!
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About THE GIRLS BEFORE:
There is a girl in a basement.
The door has stopped opening.
The light is gone.
Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive?
Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there’s always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town’s most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before.
About KATE ALICE MARSHALL:
Kate Alice Marshall is the "USA Today" bestselling author of "What Lies in the Woods", "No One Can Know", "A Killing Cold", and multiple novels for younger readers. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.
About GUESS AGAIN:
"Silence of the Lambs" meets "Cruel Summer" in GUESS AGAIN, as #1 internationally bestselling author Charlie Donlea dives into the long shadow of trauma on a small Wisconsin town, hybristophilia and the allure of evil, and the toll the truth can take on those who hunt for it…
A missing girl: 17-year-old Callie Jones was the all-American sweetheart of her small Wisconsin community. No one could have guessed that one summer night at her friends’ lake party would be the last time anyone would see her. A highly publicized search followed, but her body was never found. Callie’s case went cold.
A former renegade cop: 10 years ago, Ethan Hall was the detective assigned to Callie’s case. When all leads slipped through his fingers and the trail went cold, Ethan’s guilt led him to leave law enforcement and the trauma of the child crime unit. But now, when Ethan’s former partner requests his help on the 10th anniversary of Callie’s disappearance, Ethan reluctantly agrees to be brought back into the fold.
A twisted killer: Serial killer Francis Bernard was sentenced to life behind bars—but he has no plans to stay locked up in his tiny cell. When cop Ethan Hall turns to him for information on Callie’s case, Francis sees his chance. Twisting him into his psychological web, Ethan thinks he’s safe with Francis locked up, but little does Ethan know, Francis has hands on the outside. And she’s willing to die for him.
A woman with a dangerous obsession: Eugenia Morgan is lucky, she knows some people spend a lifetime trying to find their soulmate, but she’s already got hers. She just has to break him out of prison first...
About CHARLIE DONLEA:
Charlie Donlea is the "USA Today", "IndieBound", and #1 internationally bestselling author of critically acclaimed, propulsive thrillers including "The Girl Who Was Taken", "Twenty Years Later", "Some Choose Darkness", and "Those Empty Eyes". Published in nearly 40 countries and translated into more than a dozen languages, his books have sold nearly 2.5 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). He was born and raised in Chicago, where he continues to live with his wife and two children. Visit him online at CharlieDonlea.com.
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5915 6th Ave A, Kenosha, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53140Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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