James HampsteadJames Hampstead writes narrative nonfiction about real crimes and the ordinary settings that made them possible. His work focuses on cases where trust, routine, or familiarity became the mechanism of harm: the shared meal, the domestic visit, the worplace habit, the object no one thought to question. He is less interested in spectacle than in the quieter question of how dangerous things move through everyday life undetected, and why certain crimes stay in memory long after the verdict and the headlines have gone. Read More Read Less