Like a Charm

✍ Scribed by Slaughter, Karin (Editor)

• Book ID: 107701702
• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 464 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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.