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Like A Charm
Oct 4, 2024 11:25 AM

Author:Karin Slaughter

Like A Charm

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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.

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Crime and thriller masters know there’s nothing better than a little Slaughter:

‘I’d follow her anywhere’ GILLIAN FLYNN

‘One of the boldest thriller writers working today’ TESS GERRITSEN

‘Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled’ MICHAEL CONNELLY

‘Passion, intensity, and humanity’ LEE CHILD

‘A writer of extraordinary talents’ KATHY REICHS

‘Fiction doesn't get any better than this’ JEFFERY DEAVER

‘A great writer at the peak of her powers’ PETER JAMES

‘Raw, powerful and utterly gripping’ KATHRYN STOCKETT

‘With heart and skill Karin Slaughter keeps you hooked from the first page until the last’ CAMILLA LACKBERG

‘Amongst the world‘s greatest and finest crime writers’ YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR

Reviews

A classic thriller.

—— Publishers Weekly

An extraordinary novel. Delivered with style, believability, and sharp characterisations.

—— Nelson DeMille

Magdalen Nabb's books are set in a Florence so vividly brought to life that I long to go back there after reading each one.

—— Sunday Telegraph

Guarnaccia continues to impress as the most convincingly human of modern detectives and his creator as a writer of deep and rare dimension

—— Observer

On the basis of this elegantly twisted crime novel, Vargas is clearly an author who will rank alongside Henning Mankell. The detective, Commissaire Adamsberg, is the antithesis of Sherlock Homes: intuitive, preternaturally alert to hunches, and shabbier than Colombo. The plot kinks and switches in an utterly compelling manner. Creepy, sophisticated and wonderfully off-beat

—— Scotland on Sunday

Redhill's mild prose is dense with powerful emotional insights. Like Martin's art, it inspires a feeling of stillness and calm, of looking down on things from above; while underneath rest layer upon layer of meaning, prompting reflection on the novel's images and understandings long after the last page is reached.

—— The Times

Hauntingly good.

—— Elle

A first novel with a rich centre... not a word to spare or an image too many.

—— Montreal Gazette

Often intriguing... Jolene's youthful crassness and belated recognit ion or everything she lost are sharply and movingly evoked.

—— Sunday Times

Its combination of Grand Guignol and place setting does command attention

—— Metro London

Original, moving and entertaining for adults as well as for older children

—— Julia Donaldson , Daily Express

A deservedly acclaimed read.

—— Time Out London
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