The Sergeant Frank Hardy Mysteries

<p><strong>THREE SERGEANT FRANK HARDY BOOKS IN ONE AND IN ORDER</strong><br> <br><strong>Not the Faintest Trace</strong>When 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. <br><br><strong>Recalled to Life</strong>Hardy awakes in an underground cell with no idea how he got there and why he has been taken. While he attempts to escape he searches his past to discover why anyone would want him hidden away.<br><br><strong>A Dark and Painful Mystery</strong>Hardy is asked to find a man who left home to find work. Was he caught up in a murder or has he simply walked out on his wife. Hardy solves a real life mystery from 1878.<br><br>The three books are the first in an ongoing saga of life in New Zealand where a seemingly bucolic countryside is fraught with danger from earthquakes floods and fires to the vestiges of war and all the hardship that went with founding a new country thousands of miles from the homes of the new settlers from places as disparate as England Ireland Denmark Germany and China.  </p>