Author Event with Charlie Donlea to celebrate Behind Every Face

Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an author event with Charlie Donlea, to celebrate the rerelease of his newest novel Behind Every Face, on Monday, January 25th at 7:00 pm in our Naperville store. Donlea will be in conversation with author David Ellis.

Event Format

We will begin checking you in approximately 30 minutes before the start time. After a presentation and Q&A with the author, the line will form in numbered order with the following guidelines:

• Posed photo with your camera taken by our staff

• There is a limit of 2 books from home to be signed (unless otherwise stated)

• There is a limit of 1 personalization (unless otherwise stated)

All events have open seating. Your ticket will feature the "seating assignment" you selected at check-out; this is actually your assigned group for the signing/photo line portion of the event. We will ask ticket holders to line up by assigned group, starting with Group A and proceeding alphabetically.

If you cannot attend, you must pick up your book (if included with ticket) at the hosting store within 30 days of the event.  We can ship that book to you for an additional charge of $9.99; please call the store to arrange that.

Pre-registration is required for this event because space is limited.

Anderson’s Bookshop reserves the right to change the format of this event at any time in coordination with the author and publisher. Anderson’s Bookshop assumes no responsibility or liability for any personal injury or other loss you may incur as a result of your decision to attend an event, including the transmission of Covid-19 or related illnesses. 

Failure to treat all participants and staff with courtesy and respect may result in your expulsion from the event. 

In a gripping, relentlessly suspenseful new thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling author of TWENTY YEARS LATER, there’s no such thing as safe haven for a woman with a secret powerful enough to destroy the world’s most untouchable figures.

Dark secrets, dangerous threats, and jaw-dropping twists for readers of Riley Sager, Jeneva Rose, and Alex Michaelides.

Millions of readers click onto The Whitaker Report every day. Politics, crime, pop culture—Oliver Whitaker’s wildly popular website covers it all, breaking stories ahead of other news outlets. Ollie’s investigative skills have made him a media legend and a multimillionaire. But as the biggest story of Ollie’s life unfolds, his profession becomes deeply personal.

A cryptic last voicemail from his brother, Lucas, hinted at an explosive scandal. Lucas was tortured and murdered before Ollie could reach him, and now Ollie, too, is running for his life.

Piece by piece the explosive truth comes together—a sordid blackmail scheme involving Lucas’s billionaire employer and a missing flash drive that implicates dozens of rich and influential players. Ollie isn’t the only one being pursued by those who want that damning flash drive. So is Lucas’s fiancée, Andi Vonn, who’s been moved to a new town with a new identity to keep her safe until she can testify.

It may not be enough. As a frantic news media searches for answers and the FBI fights to protect its star witness, enemies are closing in. Ollie and Andi realize that neither can outrun this web of power and influence as a chilling reality settles in: there is no safe haven . . .

Charlie Donlea is the USA Today, IndieBound, and #1 internationally bestselling author of critically acclaimed, propulsive thrillers that have been published in nearly 40 countries, translated into more than a dozen languages, and sold nearly 4 million copies in the U.S. alone. A Nero Award finalist, screen adaptations are under way for two of his novels, with Twenty Years Later in development as a TV series produced by Impossible Dream Entertainment (BlacKkKlansman, Get Out) with Adam Arkin (The Offer, The Night Agent, Succession) directing and executive producing, and The Girl Who Was Taken optioned by Armory Films (The Peanut Butter Falcon, Mudbound). Donlea was born and raised in Chicago, where he continues to live with his wife and two children. Visit him online at CharlieDonlea.com.

David Ellis is the Edgar-winning bestseller of twelve novels of suspense, as well as twelve bestsellers co-authored with James Patterson. His latest thriller, KEEP THEM CLOSE, was released in July 2026.  Dave has served as a Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court since 2014.