Contemporary psychological crime fiction

Ordinary places.
Unsettling stories.

Welcome to the world of Florence Hemmings, where familiar streets and everyday routines can hide the darkest of secrets.

Florence Hemmings author artwork featuring Oxfordshire at dusk, traffic in a queue, and The Queue novel
Front cover of The Queue: a queue at a Post Office counter, with the title in red
Front cover
Back cover of The Queue: traffic in Abingdon and the book's synopsis
Back cover
Featured novel · Forthcoming

The Queue

A psychological crime thriller set in Abingdon, where a killer turns ordinary queues into a killing ground.

School runs, coffee stops, a busy Post Office. In Abingdon, the same familiar queues appear every morning. But someone has started taking them personally.

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Behind the name

Meet Florence Hemmings

Florence Hemmings writes psychological crime fiction with an eye for the ordinary details that reveal something darker beneath the surface.

The debut novel, The Queue, takes an everyday irritation and follows it through the streets of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, towards a terrifying conclusion.

From the first unsettling encounter to the final twist, these are stories about the places we recognise — and the people we think we know.