Founder/Tour Guide, Frank Portinari. A lifelong resident of the London Borough of Camden. Camden is famous for its music, markets, street food and art. Popular with both tourists and locals alike.
But another side of Camden exists. The dark side of Camden.
Subjects covered on the tour include crimes of passion, serial killers, terrorists, witchcraft, gangsters, street gangs, infamous robberies and more.
Accompanying these accounts are several references to local social history.
The tour begins at St Pancras international Station and concludes at Hampstead Heath. On average, the tour lasts for 3 hours.
For more details and how to book, visit The Dark Side Of Camden
Frank Portinari crime fiction, Misguided: Silence has consequences
Three elderly women are found dead in public places across Camden.
No witnesses. No struggle. One missing shoe from each body.
As the media fixates on a serial killer, Detective Inspector George Bristow and his team begin to uncover something far more uncomfortable than a lone predator. The murders are precise, patient, and rooted in a past no one wanted examined.
At the centre of the investigation lies a children’s home, long closed, officially forgotten — and quietly protected. Former staff. Former residents. Careers built, reputations preserved, questions never asked.
As suspects fall away and alibis collapse, one truth becomes impossible to ignore:
this case isn’t about opportunity — it’s about silence.
Because when abuse is ignored, when institutions look the other way, and when power shields itself behind respectability, justice doesn’t arrive cleanly.
It arrives late.
And it arrives angry.
Set against the backstreets, pubs, and parks of Camden, Misguided is a slow-burning crime novel about memory, complicity, and the cost of looking away — where the most dangerous thing isn’t what people did, but what everyone allowed to happen.
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