Sergeant Frank Hardy Books in Order

Sergeant Frank Hardy accepts responsibility for a valuable thoroughbred to support his family during a New Zealand depression. A violent gang wants the horse, and his wife’s disappearance turns the assignment into a desperate rescue mission.

In nineteenth-century New Zealand, former soldier Frank Hardy reluctantly searches for two missing Scandinavian teenagers. A determined young settler joins him as the investigation draws danger from the wilderness and from the past he hoped to escape.

Frank Hardy awakens in an underground prison with his memory clouded by chloroform. While his fiancée and partner search for him, he escapes into unfamiliar country and tries to discover which part of his past prompted the abduction.

Frank Hardy and his wife Mette investigate a settler who vanished after leaving home to seek work. A separate killing in the bush raises questions about whether the disappearance conceals murder, abandonment or a connection between the cases.

Frank and Mette Hardy board a steamer for separate assignments, only to survive a catastrophic wreck off New Zealand’s southern coast. Frank’s hunt for stolen gold continues amid family responsibilities, mistaken identities and a threat surrounding Mette.

Floods trap Frank and Mette Hardy on their farm with two other families. When a guest is stabbed with a knife from their kitchen, Frank must identify the killer while protecting his pregnant wife and children.

Frank Hardy learns that his visiting father’s traveling companion has dangerous enemies pursuing her to New Zealand. Following the couple toward Napier, he must reach them before the killers while questioning the motives of a supposed American detective.

On Christmas Eve at the Hardy farm, unexplained thefts send Frank and Hop Li searching through the darkness. While Mette gets to know Hop Li’s new bride, the visitors must untangle holiday legends from a puzzling disturbance.

After witnessing violence against a peaceful Māori village, Frank Hardy vows to abandon his rifle. An American assassin then targets his family, forcing him to find a way to protect his wife and children without returning to armed violence.

In 1868 New Zealand, Sergeant Frank Hardy is assigned to escort a murder witness from a threatened military outpost. Another killing during the journey leaves him protecting civilians from a hidden murderer as fighting draws closer.

After war changes their prospects in Schleswig, sisters Mette and Maren Jensen leave for New Zealand on promises of work. Their voyage and difficult journey toward Palmerston North introduce the settlers’ lives before the Sergeant Frank Hardy mysteries.