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Like a Charm

Karin Slaughter

2003341 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2003
first published
  • 2003Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781844136575
  • 2004Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781844137114
  • 2006HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780060593865
  • 2009Random House Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9781409063483
  • 2004Century · 341 pages · ENGISBN 9781844133734
  • 2004Arrow Books Ltd · 378 pagesISBN 9780099462255
  • 2004William Morrow · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780060583309
  • 2005Harper Paperbacks · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780060583316

KARIN SLAUGHTER, MARK BILLINGHAM, LEE CHILD, JOHN CONNOLLY, JOHN HARVEY,LYNDA LA PLANTE, DENISE MINA, PETER ROBINSON - A STUNNING COLLECTION BY CRIME FICTION'S BEST...Desire leaves a man destroyed - a young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden - an accidental encounter on a train ends violently - ambition leads to a curious exchange - an uncanny likeness changes two lives forever - A novel in sixteen chilling parts, linked by a glittering charm bracelet which brings misfortune to everyone who handles it -In Like A Charm, the cream of British and American crime writers combine for a must-have collection. From nineteenth-century Georgia, where the bracelet is forged in fire, to wartime Leeds, a steam train across Europe, the violent backstreets of 1980s Scotland, present-day London, a Manhattan taxi, the Mojave desert and back to Georgia, each writer weaves a gripping story of murder, betrayal and intrigue.

How it feels

AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful
CommitmentQuick escape

When and where

Reading situationCommuteWaiting
ThemesJustice
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