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Death on the Docks
(2024)(The fifth book in the Mr. Hardy Investigates series)
A novel by Wendy M Wilson
The resurgence of the Irish brotherhood, an unidentified woman's body spilling out of a steamer trunk with freezer burn on her arms, the beginning of a new export industry for the country, a convenient earthquake, and a case with many interesting threads for Mr. Hardy.
Sent to the Wellington docks to watch for members of the Irish Brotherhood, Constable Foster narrowly avoids death -- twice in one day. But when a body spills from a broken steamer trunk bound for Napier, and Foster's mate dies from a poisoned pie possibly intended for Foster, Mr. Hardy is sent down to Wellington to investigate. The mustering of sheep from the north east, a distraught father with an interesting history, the slaughterhouse near the docks, and the new technology for freezing meat to transport it by sea, all have his attention.
Mr. Hardy now has several mysteries to investigate. Who is trying to kill Constable Foster, and who killed the young woman in the sea chest? Who was the young woman in the chest? Are the Irish Brotherhood still operating in New Zealand? Meanwhile, Beatrice and Aroha bond over a mysterious kidnapping, but will never agree on the issue of clothing.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Sent to the Wellington docks to watch for members of the Irish Brotherhood, Constable Foster narrowly avoids death -- twice in one day. But when a body spills from a broken steamer trunk bound for Napier, and Foster's mate dies from a poisoned pie possibly intended for Foster, Mr. Hardy is sent down to Wellington to investigate. The mustering of sheep from the north east, a distraught father with an interesting history, the slaughterhouse near the docks, and the new technology for freezing meat to transport it by sea, all have his attention.
Mr. Hardy now has several mysteries to investigate. Who is trying to kill Constable Foster, and who killed the young woman in the sea chest? Who was the young woman in the chest? Are the Irish Brotherhood still operating in New Zealand? Meanwhile, Beatrice and Aroha bond over a mysterious kidnapping, but will never agree on the issue of clothing.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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