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? 'Gripping' Daily Express 'Full of twists and turns' That's Life 'Another winner... Plenty of twists, the odd conspiracy theory to ramp up the pace. Insider glimpses into the media and art world add fascination' Press Association 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

'A slice of scary, escapist fun' Observer 'The twists and turns are never-ending' Daily Mail 'An unnervingly plausible and scintillatingly paced thriller' Radio Times 'A phenomenal thriller, meticulously plotted and brilliantly realised' Clare Mackintosh, Books of the Year If you can hear it, your time is running out. Teacher Kit Chaplin can't understand why some students at his north London school are experiencing an extreme ticking noise in their ears. Perhaps it's just a severe form of tinnitus? But only days later, it spreads to more students - and starts leaving bodies in its wake. Eminent vaccinologist Lilly Slater has never seen anything like this before. She must race against the clock to work out what is happening - and to find a cure. But their investigation throws up more questions than answers until they realise the mystery behind the illness is even bigger than they could have imagined... Will the truth behind this catastrophe become clear before it's too late? Readers are loving Tick Tock 'Well, BBC Radio presenter Simon Mayo sure can write a darned good thriller!' 'An excellent conspiracy theory thriller, it's exciting, full of danger... it's riveting and hard to put down' 'I was utterly gripped and read this in one sitting! I could feel the tension and fear in every page - loved it!' 'Never has there been a more timely thriller! I was gripped from the first page. I was so immersed, I read it in one night.'