Before we get into today's episode, a little news from the Killer Author Club: your hosts Kimberly, Heather, and Kaira have written a thriller of their own. Take Back the Night publishes January 12, 2027 — and you can preorder your copy now at killerauthorclub.com/killer-book.

Charlie Donlea joins us to talk about Guess Again, a cold case thriller set in a small Wisconsin town where a teenage girl vanished ten years ago — and the person who might know what really happened is sitting in a prison cell. We get into how Donlea built a convicted killer into an unlikely source of information and, more impressively, made readers trust him anyway, his writing process of exhaustive outlines and multiple recalibrations that somehow still leave room for surprise, and the craft of planting just enough in each chapter that readers feel like they're solving the puzzle — right up until the moment they aren't. Plus, Charlie gives us a first look at what's next: Behind Every Face.

And if you haven't yet — preorder Take Back the Night, the thriller written by your KAC hosts, at killerauthorclub.com/killer-book. January 12, 2027 can't come soon enough.

Download and listen today — because some cold cases stay cold for a reason. And some killers are counting on it.