Black Tag

Your house is on fire. What do you save? You have seconds to decide…

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 should not have been there. Crusading journalist Famie Madden wants to know who it is and what they were doing. 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.

Soon Famie’s investigation will take her far from the pages of her website into a murderous family saga stretching back over centuries…

'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

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