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After leaving England under a cloud, James Hardy, one-time coachman at a stately home, starts a new life in New Zealand with a woman he met on board ship on the way to New Zealand. After an adventure with his son, Sergeant Frank Hardy, he finds himself in the beautiful town of Napier, on the east coast of New Zealand. Soon after, with the town under the false impression that he is a retired Scotland Yard detective, James Hardy begins to assist...

He's all that's standing between his family and a hired assassin. And he's unarmed. After Sergeant Frank Hardy watches the invasion of a peaceful M¿ori village by the Armed Constabulary, with crops destroyed and innocent men imprisoned, he lays down his rifle and swears never to shoot in anger again. Then he learns that a contract killer has come from America to avenge the death of a crooked detective from San Francisco. The killer is targeti...

A body caught in a boat wreck. A young constable acting strangely. A young woman determined that her Patrick has been replaced. An international conspiracy tied to Ireland. And a new task for Mr. Hardy: to find who killed the man on the sandbar, and how it connects to Constable Foster and his family. When a strangled body caught in a wreck that has floated onto a sandbar turns out to be an Irishman from Constable Foster's home town, James Ha...

NEW ZEALAND, 1878: Has the missing man been murdered in the dense bush, or has he simply abandoned his wife and children for another woman? Sergeant Frank Hardy and his new wife Mette attempt to solve two real mysteries from nineteenth-century New Zealand: the whereabouts of Peter Kane, who left his home to look for work and did not return, and the brutal murder of an accommodation house owner who was splitting palings in the bush. Were they c...

New Zealand, 1881: Sgt. Frank Hardy is confined to Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, in quarantine, when an American detective tells him that his father is in trouble. A shipboard romance has put him in the sights of a gang from San Francisco. Hardy needs to get off the island and to Napier before his father to save his life. A chase by steam launch, buggy, barouche, horseback and train follows. Can Hardy catch his father before the gang cat...

The 19th century New Zealand setting, the rich character development, the harkening back to so much in the history of the British Empire -- all these make for a story one simply cannot put down." When Sergeant Frank Hardy awakes in a remote underground prison in the bush with no memory of how he got there, he must search his past for clues. The answer is buried in his history and he will have to dig it up before he can be free. The story beg...

He was looking for bodies. He didn't expect to become one himself. Sergeant Frank Hardy is grinding out a living driving a Royal Mail Coach and playing rigged card games with a Chinese cook. Then he's asked to find two missing settlers. The job bores him, but his own past compels him to take the job. But when he rescues a young woman from an axe-wielding warrior his life gets interesting. Now all he's worried about is keeping his head. Live ...

A body plunging off a cliff, a new craze for pedestrianism and the related gambling, a constable willing to walk ninety miles without stopping, and a testing undercover assignment for Mr. Hardy. When a race walking champion is forced off a cliff to his death, and his fellow race-walkers are all suspects, Mr. Hardy and Constable Foster go undercover to find the killer. An accident-filled race leads to a showdown in the bubbling mud and geysers...

A historic knife. A mysterious major who wants the knife. The body of a young woman found deep in the bush. And a chance for retired coachman James Hardy to reinvent himself in a new country. New Zealand 1881: After a reclusive Maori on the run from the police leaps onto the back of his spring buggy, retired coachman JAMES HARDY discovers he has stumbled into a murder scene. While tracking a gang of lumber thieves, police have found the body ...

New Zealand 1880: A body in a ditch, a missing wife, money in short supply, and a stud horse wanted by the leader of a brutal Australian gang - Sergeant Frank Hardy has a lot to handle. The fourth book in this gripping historical mystery series set in New Zealand in the 1880s continues the story of ex-Diehard Sergeant Frank Hardy and Danish settler Mette Jensen, now his wife. The temperance movement has taken hold in New Zealand, and the coun...

THREE SERGEANT FRANK HARDY BOOKS IN ONE, AND IN ORDER Not the Faintest TraceWhen two young men go missing, Sergeant Hardy is asked to find them. He is reluctant. He was looking for something more adventurous. But an attack by an axe-wielding warrior and a chance encounter with the cousin of one of the missing men draws him into the action. Recalled to LifeHardy awakes in an underground cell with no idea how he got there and why he has been...

A spirit photograph. A detective in a box. A Scandinavian boy who speaks only Maori and runs with the Marsh Mob. A body floating in the marsh. And a new opportunity for James Hardy to exercise his mind.New Zealand 1882: When Constable Patrick Foster pursues a young, blond boy who runs with a gang of Maori boys, he discovers he speaks only Maori, even though he is clearly Scandinavian. After the boy jumps from a bridge into a fast-moving tide, ...

This anthology contains three gripping historical mysteries from The Sergeant Frank Hardy Mysteries series, set in the late nineteenth century of New Zealand: DEAD SHOT When the Hardys offer care for a thoroughbred stud horse that has been threatened with death, they are unaware how close they will come to death themselves. The horse has been targetted by a brutal gang from Australia, assisted by someone closer to home than they would have i...

HE SURVIVED THE WRECK, WILL HE SURVIVE WHAT COMES NEXT? Low on cash, Sergeant Frank and his wife, each take on a task that sends them to the South Island by steamer. When the ship hits a reef on the wild coast of the southernmost part of New Zealand, Frank must save himself and his family while completing his mission: finding the men who stole six gold ingots from the ship several months earlier. His quest is complicated by not one but two bab...

Trapped by rising flood waters on his farm, and doing his best to care for his growing family, including his pregnant wife, Mette, Frank Hardy gives shelter to two other families. When one member of the sheltering families is found stabbed to death the Hardy's kitchen knife, Hardy must discover the killer before he kills again, and stay awake to do so. A classic Agatha Christie style mystery set in nineteenth century New New Zealand.

In 1878 New Zealand, Sergeant Frank Hardy wakes from a drug-induced sleep in an underground cell with only a vague memory of what has happened. He remembers being in Wellington and taking a steam ship north, but nothing more. As he searches his memory for past misdeeds and recent events, his fiancee and his partner look desperately for him.

In 1866, a brutal gang of ex-convicts from Australia left a trail of death, thievery and larceny across the goldfields of New Zealand. In the goldmining town of Greymouth, Inspector William Henry James, in charge of the police camp, attempted to prevent the gang from taking root in his town. Too late he discovered that a missing surveyor may have been the first victim of the gang. After James forced them to leave town, the Burgess/Kelly gang w...

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War with Maori rebels is once more in the air in 1880s New Zealand. Sergeant Frank Hardy is training volunteers in Palmerston North but is more worried about keeping his wife , Mette, safe and keeping himself out of debt. When he is given the opportunity to take a stallion from a stable up near the front he accepts. But someone wants the horse, and is willing to kill to get it back. When Mette disappears and a body turns up in a ditch beside h...

Sergeant Frank Hardy, late of Her Majesty's 57th Regiment of Foot, now works as a private investigator in Palmerston, New Zealand. While in Wellington to bring back a the sister of a friend, he is kidnapped and chloroformed, awaking to find himself in a tiny underground cell crawling with wetas. Circumstances force him to risk an escape, and he meets the rebel Anahera, incarcerated in the same prison. Frank must find out why he was sent to the...