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Like A Charm

AuthorKarin Slaughter

NarratorSusan Ericksen

Duration10h 44m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Short Stories

PublisherRandom House Audio Go

VersionUnabridged

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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 - Fifteen chilling stories 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 of linked short stories. 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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