Wendy M. Wilson 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.

Forced into retirement, Inspector William Henry James remembers the Burgess gang’s killings in New Zealand’s goldfields. His account returns to a murdered surveyor, a decision that displaced the gang and a determination to bring a remaining suspect to justice.

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.

Retired coachman James Hardy encounters a murder investigation after a fugitive leaps onto his buggy. Mistaken for a former Scotland Yard detective, he agrees to help solve the killing of a young housemaid in nineteenth-century New Zealand.

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.

James Hardy investigates a Scandinavian child who speaks only Māori while police examine a body found in the marshes near Napier. Following the boy’s history into the bush may reveal a connection between the two mysteries.

After a race-walking champion is forced from a cliff, James Hardy and Constable Foster enter an undercover race to expose the killer. Their journey through New Zealand’s ranges leads toward danger among the Hot Lakes’ geysers and mud pools.

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.

A strangled body found in a wrecked boat implicates Constable Foster, whose fiancée believes he has been replaced by an impostor. James Hardy joins her search for answers as an Irish conspiracy threatens their lives.

Attempts on Constable Foster’s life and a woman’s body in a steamer trunk bring James Hardy to Wellington. Investigating the docks’ expanding frozen-meat trade draws him into several connected mysteries while his family confronts a kidnapping.

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.

After a body is found near railway carriages prepared for an American dignitary, reporter Kate Hardy agrees to impersonate the visitor on an earlier journey. The assignment becomes dangerous while she searches for missing Marine major Harry Wilhelm.

A wartime photograph of Harry Wilhelm at Tarawa brings unintended consequences after his return to combat. Meanwhile, Kate Hardy retreats to her grandmother’s New Zealand farm after spotting an old enemy and encounters a former lover with demands of his own.

Reporter Kate Hardy investigates suspicious activity near a US Marine training camp on New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast in 1943. Working with an American major to uncover traitors draws her toward murder, wartime suspicion and tensions within her own community.

In Wellington in June 1944, Marine major Harry Wilhelm has five days to find deserters before the last transport departs. A body at a reservoir and damaged communications point toward a threat inside lightly defended New Zealand.

As Kate Hardy goes into labor in 1946, her father recalls meeting her mother after Gallipoli. Sam and nurse Rose’s wartime romance unfolds across distant postings, carrying a deception that shaped Kate’s life before she was born.