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The Black Dress

The Black Dress
  • Author(s): Deborah Moggach
  • Location(s): Muswell Hill
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pru’s husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She’s missing not so much him, but the life they once had – picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in...

The Therapist

The Therapist
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): Finsbury Park
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present/ 2018

When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they’ve dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive… As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating, grisly...

First One Missing

First One Missing
  • Author(s): Tammy Cohen
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

There are three things no-one can prepare you for when your daughter is murdered: – You are haunted by her memory day and night – Your friends and family fear you are going mad – Only in a group...

Five Strangers

Five Strangers
  • Author(s): E V Adamson
  • Location(s): Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A gripping new thriller about secrets, obsession and lies When disgraced journalist Jen Hunter witnesses a horrific murder-suicide on Hampstead Heath one February alongside four strangers, she is compelled to find out what really happened that day. They all...

Frank and Red

Frank and Red
  • Author(s): Matt Coyne
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the ‘ghost’ of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his...

Hampstead Fever

Hampstead Fever
  • Author(s): Carol Cooper
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present day

A heatwave brings emotions to boiling point… It is high summer in London and trouble is brewing. Chef Dan should be blissfully happy. He has the woman of his dreams and a job in a trendy Hampstead bistro. But...

Late in the Day

Late in the Day
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties. From student house-shares and grubby pubs to...

Murder in Hampstead

Murder in Hampstead
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

A locked-room mystery about a seemingly impossible crime When lawyer-turned-interior designer Lucia Steer accepts a lucrative job renovating Beatrice Hall, a large house owned by a professor in a north London suburb, she has no idea of the impact...

Murder in Kentish Town: an elegant mystery set in Bohemian London

Murder in Kentish Town: an elegant mystery set in Bohemian London
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murder disguised as suicide presents a challenge for a sharp investigator. When London police come across the body of a young woman, dead in her bathtub, it looks like a classic case of suicide. However, for deft civilian...

Murder in Primrose Hill

Murder in Primrose Hill
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A glitzy social media influencer gets unliked in a rather drastic fashion in this unputdownable contemporary whodunnit… When celebrity baker Ruthie Simmons invited friends to her chocolate-boxy London home, she had planned only a small get-together with bubbles, a...

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