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The Stargazers

The Stargazers
  • Author(s): Harriet Evans
  • Location(s): Hampstead, West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1950s/1970s

It’s the 1970s, and Sarah has spent a lifetime trying to bury memories of her childhood: the constant fear, the horror of her school days, and Fane, the vast, crumbling house that was the sole obsession of her mother,...

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...

Murder on The Heath

Murder on The Heath
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): Hampstead, North London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Can ex-lawyer turned civilian investigator Lucia Steer solve an impossible murder? The apparent cool, calm and collectedness of a relationship counsellor, or ‘coach’ as Alec Penney called himself, is dealt a severe blow when he ends up dead on...

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...

This Time Next Year

This Time Next Year
  • Author(s): Sophie Cousens
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

PRIMROSE HILL/HAMPSTEAD HEATH The instant New York Times bestseller adored by readers around the world! Curl up with the refreshingly romantic and unputdownable rom-com which has everyone falling head over heels… Get ready to fall for this year’s most...

On Hampstead Heath

On Hampstead Heath
  • Author(s): Marika Cobbold
  • Location(s): Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half-finished sentences. Now she’s a journalist with a passion for truth, more devoted to her work at the London Journal than she ever was to her...

V for Victory

V for Victory
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

It’s late 1944. Hitler’s rockets are slamming down on London with vicious regularity and it’s the coldest winter in living memory. Allied victory is on its way, but it’s bloody well dragging its feet. In a large house next...

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...

The Confession

The Confession
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 2000s

One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...

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...

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