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  • Published: 30 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529918403
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

Black Tag





The new cutting-edge contemporary page-turner from accalimed DJ and Times Thriller of the Year author Simon Mayo.

Your house is on fire. What do you save?
You have seconds to decide.
If everything is about to burn, what do you rescue first?

When the West End Gallery in London's fashionable Coal Drops Yard is set alight, the fire service must use the list of paintings lodged with it - a grab list - to snatch the key paintings from the flames.

But the list has been altered. It’s the wrong list.

Then the ashes reveal another tragedy: an unidentified dead body. Someone who shouldn’t have been in the gallery. Crusading journalist Famie Madden wants to know who it is and why they were there. Soon it becomes apparent that the ashes are hiding much more than they should be - and that this is much more than a casual act of arson…

Bestselling author and legendary broadcaster Simon Mayo has created a spellbinding contemporary thriller. He weaves a story ripped from today’s newspapers that will take Famie far from the pages of her website into a murderous family saga stretching back over centuries.
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Praise for Simon Mayo

'Mayo spools out his many twists and turns skilfully.' Observer
'Simon Mayo is clearly a force to be reckoned with in the thriller world.' The Times
'The characters are well observed, the dialogue effortless and the twists and turns never-ending.' Daily Mail

  • Published: 30 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529918403
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Simon Mayo

Simon Mayo is a writer and broadcaster. He is the presenter of the podcast Simon Mayo’s Books of the Year, a daily host on Scala Radio and co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review for the BBC. His previous books include Mad Blood Stirring, Blame and the Itch trilogy, filmed for TV by ABC.

Knife Edge is his debut contemporary thriller.

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Praise for Black Tag

Praise for Simon Mayo

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Simon Mayo is clearly a force to be reckoned with in the thriller world... Smart and tense [with] some highly ingenious twists.

The Times

Mayo spools out his many twists and turns skillfully. A slice of scary, escapist fun.

Observer

The characters are well observed, the dialogue effortless and the twists and turns never-ending.

Daily Mail

Gripping

Daily Express

Full of twists and turns

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