About the author

Tom Vaughan MacAulay is a solicitor and lives in London.

His first novel, Being Simon Haines, was published in 2017. The novel was selected as a Best Book for Summer in The Times, Law, while Justin Warshaw, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, described it as a ‘grand narrative of a young man on the cusp of the realization of a dream’. Edward Fennell, writing in The Times, the Brief premium, asked whether it would become ‘the defining novel for [Tom’s] generation about what it means to be a driven corporate lawyer’.

Countdown to a Killing, his second novel, was published on 7 July.