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- 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...
The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
- Location(s): London, North London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1954
THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan police. She can’t speak their language, but she understands what their wary looks mean: she has...
- Location(s): Falkenberg, Hampstead, London
- Genre(s): Thriller
Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea’s. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In...
- Location(s): North London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s and 2000s
A wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity, from an award-winning historian. 1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful...
One of Our Ministers Is Missing
- Location(s): Crete, North London
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Another fast-paced and warm-hearted thriller from award-winning writer, and former MP, Alan Johnson. A government minister in the Foreign Office has vanished into thin air. On holiday in Crete, Lord Bellingham had been solo trekking in the White Mountains...
- Location(s): North London
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent’s worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete’s two-year-old, Theo, isn’t Pete’s real son – their babies got mixed up at birth....
- 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...
The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E
- Location(s): North London
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 2019
Muriel, a former bestselling romantic novelist, and Ruth, a journalist, are best friends. Inseparable since they were little, they’ve shared everything; unable to be without each other, even after the most vicious of fights. Now fate has left them...
- Location(s): North London
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s/early 2000s
12-year-old Sophie and her mother, Amelia-Rose, move to London from Massachusetts where they meet the charismatic Matty Melgren, who quickly becomes an intrinsic part of their lives. But as the relationship between the two adults fractures, a serial killer...
- 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...
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