The Forensic Genealogist Books in Order

Peter Coldrick hires Morton Farrier because his own birth records seem to vanish into wartime silence. When Coldrick dies, Morton keeps digging, even as powerful people make it clear the past should stay buried.

A terminally ill client asks Morton to trace Mary Mercer, a housemaid who disappeared from an Edwardian country house in 1911. The deeper Morton looks, the more the old household closes ranks.

At Christmastime, Morton turns from clients’ secrets to his own family history. His research reaches back to the Western Front in 1914, where the famous truce may have hidden a darker truth.

Morton finally hopes to investigate his own father, but a case tied to a murdered woman in a two-hundred-year-old painting pulls him away. Hastings history and family secrets collide.

With his career slowing, Morton takes a case for a woman abandoned during the Battle of Britain. The search uncovers a hidden document, dangerous wartime links, and people still willing to protect old secrets.

Morton travels to Cape Cod to learn what happened to his father, who vanished after a fatal Christmas Eve fire in 1976. The case is personal, painful, and tied to family lies.

Exhausted by a new addition at home, Morton still agrees to investigate Grace Emmerson, a militant suffragette and his wife’s great-grandmother. Her hidden past leads him into courage, risk, and family memory.

In this short prequel, Morton expects a simple family-history job. An unexpected marriage record leads instead to an asylum death and an eighty-year-old secret that needs careful untangling.

A mysterious letter pulls Morton into the Georgian smuggling world of the Kent and Sussex border. As he investigates the Aldington Gang and a brutal killing, his client’s motives start to feel unsafe.

A stranger asks Morton to identify a man who lived under the name of her long-dead brother. The trail reaches into 1950s state secrets, while Morton faces a startling DNA match of his own.

Morton has six days to identify three women abandoned as newborns in the 1970s, using only their DNA as a clue. One of them is his half-aunt, making the case uncomfortably close.

In Salt Lake City for a genealogy conference, Morton meets former girlfriend Madison Scott-Barnhart after twenty-six years. He also investigates his wife’s great-grandfather, who deserted his Sussex family after the First World War.

When Molly Moon finds her aunt’s 1920 journal, it claims four missing hop-pickers were murdered, including Molly’s uncle. Morton takes the case and soon faces threats aimed at his career.