Whitby's Forgotten Victims Books in Order

Bones exposed by a storm lead DCI Frank Black to an eighteen-year-old musician whose life ended decades earlier. With DI Gerry Carver, he investigates links to a burned pub, determined that her forgotten death should receive justice.

While searching for his missing daughter, DCI Frank Black investigates a body concealed inside a derelict pub. Its notorious poker nights lead him and Gerry Carver into a community where trauma and buried secrets complicate the pursuit of justice.

A discovery on Whitby's coast revives the disappearance of a vulnerable boy who vanished while walking his dog twenty-six years earlier. Frank Black and Gerry Carver investigate troubled families and concealed identities, confronting painful echoes of their own lives.

Remains found in a disused silo lead DCI Frank Black to a woman who vanished decades earlier. With DS Gerry Carver, he follows the murdered poet's history into Whitby's privileged circles, where powerful people have kept her fate concealed.

A body recovered from the sea belongs to a psychiatrist supposedly dead for decades. Frank Black and Gerry Carver investigate his hidden second life, uncovering false identities and the damage he left among people who trusted him.

A burned body unearthed before Christmas casts doubt on a dead fisherman's confession to a double murder. Leading her first investigation, Gerry Carver-Foley questions the evidence while Frank Black fears they once condemned the wrong man.

A body discovered in abandoned railway tunnels belongs to a predator who disappeared years earlier. Frank Black and Gerry Carver investigate survivors united by silence, confronting the uneasy boundary between protecting vulnerable people and delivering justice.

Bones found behind a wall challenge Whitby's decades-old belief that Barnaby Scaife murdered his missing girlfriend. Frank Black and Gerry Carver-Foley revisit the case, but witnesses facing dementia, disability, and brain injury make uncovering the truth difficult.

A television garden makeover uncovers the remains of a singer who vanished just before his band's breakthrough fifty years earlier. As their lost song finds a new audience, Gerry Carver-Foley and Frank Black investigate who imprisoned him underground.