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Not the Faintest Trace
(2018)(The first book in the Sergeant Frank Hardy Mystery series)
A novel by Wendy M Wilson
Once, Sergeant Frank Hardy was a sharpshooter in the Diehards, the 57th Regiment of Foot, fighting in India and Crimea. Now he’s living in a small Scandinavian settlement deep in the New Zealand bush and missing his old life.
Then a killer comes for him. What happened in the past that made him a target?
As Hardy searches for two missing Scandinavian settlers, a killer lurks in the bush with revenge in his heart. The year is 1877, and the effects of Land Wars of the previous decade still reverberate. Has the killer taken the missing men, or have they simply drowned?
Set in the picturesque New Zealand countryside, Not the Faintest Trace, a gripping mystery with a touch of romance, is the first of eight books in the Sergeant Frank Hardy Mysteries series. Based partly on a true family story of two young men who crossed a river and disappeared, and partly on an unacknowledged and brutal atrocity covered in the first chapter, the book and the series are fictional products of the author's imagination.
WHAT READERS SAY
"Once I started to read it, I could not put it down."
"This is a masterpiece for anyone who likes their history woven and properly displayed by a master storyteller. Wendy Wilson beautifully captures the many unique cultures of early and illuminates personalities of the many thousands of people who immigrated to NZ in the 1800's from across Great Britain, the wider UK, Europe, Scandinavia, America and China, etc. She has made the characters come alive by creating and understanding how those cultures interacted with the Maori peoples of NZ and beautifully illustrating the lore, language and family bonds which dominated their way of life."
Genre: Historical Mystery
Then a killer comes for him. What happened in the past that made him a target?
As Hardy searches for two missing Scandinavian settlers, a killer lurks in the bush with revenge in his heart. The year is 1877, and the effects of Land Wars of the previous decade still reverberate. Has the killer taken the missing men, or have they simply drowned?
Set in the picturesque New Zealand countryside, Not the Faintest Trace, a gripping mystery with a touch of romance, is the first of eight books in the Sergeant Frank Hardy Mysteries series. Based partly on a true family story of two young men who crossed a river and disappeared, and partly on an unacknowledged and brutal atrocity covered in the first chapter, the book and the series are fictional products of the author's imagination.
WHAT READERS SAY
"Once I started to read it, I could not put it down."
"This is a masterpiece for anyone who likes their history woven and properly displayed by a master storyteller. Wendy Wilson beautifully captures the many unique cultures of early and illuminates personalities of the many thousands of people who immigrated to NZ in the 1800's from across Great Britain, the wider UK, Europe, Scandinavia, America and China, etc. She has made the characters come alive by creating and understanding how those cultures interacted with the Maori peoples of NZ and beautifully illustrating the lore, language and family bonds which dominated their way of life."
Genre: Historical Mystery
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