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 third 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 country is locked in the depths of a depression as a new land war threatens. When Sergeant Hardy and his new wife find themselves in financial straits, Hardy takes on Dead Shot, a stallion from a town near the front wanted by a brutal Australian gang trying to take over the racing world. Murder soon follows. When Hardy's wife disappears, apparently kidnapped by the gang, Hardy must track down the mysterious leader of the gang and take him out of commission.This well-researched novel...

He's the police inspector who failed to stop the worst mass murder in the history of New Zealand and he can't forget it. In 1888, forced into retirement by government cuts, Inspector William Henry James walks home beside the Whanganui River remembering his association with a horrendous mass murder: back in 1866 he had forced the Burgess gang to leave Greymouth. The gang took a steamer up to Nelson and within days killed five men on the Maungatapu Track. Soon after, Inspector James discovered the body of a young surveyor, George Dobson, murdered by Burgess and his crew. The gang was gone, but one guilty man remained, and James was determined to bring him to trial. The events that transpired haunted him for the rest of his life. "Wendy Wilson writes beautifully and subtly about bad men who did bad things, as well as those who struggled to bring them to justice. In A Cold Wind Down the Grey, the past, in all its complicated allure and nasty...

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 baby girls, and a mysterious man who is convinced Mette has committed a crime. An adventure and a mystery, Come to Grief will intrigue fans who like reading a ripping yarn while learning a bit of history.

"A captivating historical thriller!" Andrew Noakes In a country still scarred by war and roiled by Maori land appropriations, Sergeant Frank Hardy, late of Her Majesty's 57th Regiment of Foot, has carved out a life for himself in Palmerston North, New Zealand. When he is kidnapped during a case and wakes to find himself imprisoned in an underground cell with no memory of how he got there and no clue who he has taken him, he must search his past to discover what has brought him there. Meanwhile, his fiancée Mette and his partner Constable Wiremu Karira search for answers. Why has Frank been taken from the SS Stormbird? Where is he? And will they ever see him again?

Sergeant Frank Hardy, a battle-hardened veteran of British Colonial wars in India and Crimea, is looking for work as an investigator while driving a mail coach through the dangerous New Zealand bush. When two settlers disappear, he is hired to find them, living or dead. But when he and a young Danish woman are targeted by a ferocious killer with a deadly tomahawk he begins to wonder if his presence at a wartime atrocity eight years earlier has resurfaced. Can he find the bodies? And can he stop more killings, including his own? "Superb debut book!" Amazon Top 500 Reviewer "Great adventure story about New Zealand." Amazon Revewer "Hooked me right from the opening scene about a brutal murder..." Read this book if you love exploring new countries while you are engrossed in a gripping, suspenseful thriller with heart.