Black Tag

By: Simon Mayo

Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge

Brought to you by Penguin.

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 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.
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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

© Simon Mayo 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Critic reviews

Gripping

Full of twists and turns

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.

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

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