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A journalist investigating a gallery fire gets more than she bargained for when she becomes tangled in a wealthy family's secrets. The new cutting-edge thriller from Sunday Times bestselling 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 pieces of art from the flames. But something 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. _______________ 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

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Praise for Simon Mayo * : *
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 *

Author Bio

Simon Mayo MBE is a writer and broadcaster. His previous books include the Sunday Times bestseller Knife Edge, Mad Blood Stirring, Blame and the Itch trilogy, filmed for TV by the ABC. He hosts Drivetime on Greatest Hits Radio and hosts the 'The Take' film-review podcast with Professor Mark Kermode.