Like a Charm: A Novel in Voices - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060583304 ISBN 13: 9780060583309

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2004

Synopsis

A suspenseful collection of sixteen interconnected stories--written by Lee Child, Lynda La Plante, Jane Haddam, Peter Robinson, and Laura Lippman, among others--takes readers from the year 1800 to the present and centers around an unlucky charm bracelet that is surreptitiously obtained and then discarded or lost by a series of protagonists. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

In Like a Charm, the cream of British and American crime writers combine for a tempting collection of linked short stories. From nineteenth-century Georgia to wartime Leeds, on a steam train across Europe, in the violent back streets of 1980s Scotland, present-day London, a Manhattan taxi, the Mojave desert and back to Georgia, each writer delivers a characteristic story of murder, betrayal and intrigue. And with such stellar contributors as Peter Robinson (writing about 1940s Leeds), Fidelis Morgan, Lynda La Plante (1970s Britain), Val McDermid (1980s Scotland) and flavour-of-the month Mark Billingham tackling contemporary London, some impressive writing is guaranteed. Like a Charm is the first collection of crime fiction to have one specific subject as the focus of every story and to take a geographical approach to storytelling.

From the Publisher:

KARIN SLAUGHTER, MARK BILLINGHAM, LEE CHILD, JOHN CONNOLLY, LYNDA LA PLANTE, DENISE MINA, PETER ROBINSON ... A STUNNING COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL LINKED STORIES FROM SOME OF THE BEST CRIME WRITERS TODAY ...

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060583304
• ISBN 13: 9780060583309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Slaughter Karin