One singularly unlucky charm bracelet and a cross-section of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning practitioners of the new noir combine to present an explosive and dazzlingly inventive suspense novel. Like a Charm presents 16 interconnected stories that chart the journey of the charm 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 weaving a gripping story of murder, betrayal and intrigue. The incredible array of contributors includes Lee Child, Val McDermid, Laura Lippman, and Peter Robinson.