Six coastlines, six houses, and one long record of what a family was willing to bury.
6 books · read in order
Start with Book One“A death on the moors. An estate built on lies.”
When twenty-two-year-old Rowan Sherrard is found dead on the Yorkshire moor, it looks like a tragic accident. It isn't. She had been staying at Winterkeep — officially a conservation foundation, unofficially a place wrapped in sil…
“The sea gives up its secrets eventually. Sometimes it takes years.”
When a man is found dead inside an abandoned salt boathouse on the North Yorkshire coast, Detective Inspector Honor Whitling is pulled into a case that feels disturbingly familiar. The victim had enemies. The town has secrets. And…
“She never sent one letter — she only had to keep them, against the day someone would come.”
For thirty-four years, an old woman on the marsh wrote letters to a sister no one else remembered. When Edith Vexley dies, her daughter finds the record of a lifetime, and the reason her cousin Peter drowned eight weeks before her…
“The pattern was never English. It only ever hid where no one would look.”
On the salt flats of the Languedoc, a schoolteacher drowns in a lagoon she has known all her life — a fortnight after she posts three careful pages to the police. Honor Whitling is nearly at the end of her career, and this case be…
“At the bottom of the world, distance is not the same as safety.”
On a deep, cold sound in the far south of New Zealand, a grey man has kept his mother's record for thirty-one years — a record of the sister who went to a beloved school and never came home. DI Maya Anders travels to the end of th…
“They thought the edge of the world was a good place to lose a child.”
A letter comes out of Donegal: fifty years of a family's record, kept on a lough at the last parish before America. Maya Anders follows it to the wild northwest of Ireland — and to a truth that reaches all the way back to where th…
Six coastlines, six houses, and one long record of what a family was willing to bury.
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