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Rory Moore Returns

From the Bestselling Novel
Some Choose Darkness

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“...Rory maintains a firm grip on our interest, mainly because “the mysterious and unexplained intrigued her” as much as it does us. "

The New York Times Book Review    

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Now in Trade
Paperback  
05.23.23 

“Multiple intertwining storylines keep the pacing brisk and the tension high throughout.“

—Publisher's Weekly   

“Charlie Donlea is a superb psychological suspense writer.”
—Seattle Book Review

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#TheSuicideHouse 

The Suicide House 

A Rory Moore/Lane Phillips Novel (Book 2)

 Peppermill, IN  

June 21, 2019

Westmont Prep 

Boarding School  

nestled on the banks of Lake Michigan 

A chilling murder is at the heart of this riveting new novel from acclaimed author Charlie Donlea, featuring forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore and her psychologist partner, Lane Phillips.

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Available Now!  

Available in hardcover, paperback,
e-book, and audio formats
 

Inside the Walls  

 

Of Indiana’s elite
Westmont Preparatory
High School,

expectations run high and
rules are strictly enforced. 
 

But In the Woods   

 

Beyond the manicured campus and playing

 

fields sits an abandoned boarding

house that is infamous among Westmont’s

 

students as a late-night hangout.

 

Here Only One
Rule Applies

 

 

Don't let your candle go out—

unless you want the

Man in the Mirror to
find you. . . .

 

One Year Ago  

 

Two students were killed there in a grisly slaughter.

The case has since become the focus of a hit podcast,

The Suicide House.
 

Why are they Returning? 

 

Though a teacher was convicted of the murders,
mysteries and questions remain.

 The most urgent among them is

why so many students who survived that horrific night

have returned to the boarding house. . . 

  To Kill Themselves​
 

The Podcast 

 

​Rory, an expert in reconstructing
cold cases
is working on 
The Suicide House podcast

with Lane, recreating the night of the killings

in order to find answers that have

eluded the school, the town, and the police. 

But the More 

 

They learn about the troubled students,

the chillingly stoic culprit,

and a dangerous game gone tragically wrong,

the more convinced they become that something 

Sinister Is Still Happening 
 

Inside Westmont Prep 

 

The game hasn’t ended.

It thrives on secrecy and silence.

And for its players,

there may be no way to win 

 

—or to survive. . . 
 

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BR, AU, and US Editions 

The Suicide
House
 
Climb into the mind
of killer...

 
Journal Entries
One-Six 

The Suicide House 

When two students are horrifically murdered just outside the grounds of their exclusive prep school, Rory sets out to solve the case and tracks her efforts by recording a podcast (which you can listen to here or below). See the stunning cover and read on for an exclusive excerpt

—BookPage 

The Suicide House Podcast by Charlie Donlea.

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