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Wendy M Wilson
While academic institutions and training programs educate individuals about specific career professions and industries, few provide instruction on the practices and behaviors that are necessary for career access, navigation, and…
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After leaving England under a cloud, James Hardy, one-time coachman at a stately home, starts a new life in New Zealand with a woman he met on board ship on…
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A spirit photograph. A detective in a box. A Scandinavian boy who speaks only Maori and runs with the Marsh Mob. A body floating in the marsh. And a new…
A body plunging off a cliff, a new craze for pedestrianism and the related gambling, a constable willing to walk ninety miles without stopping, and a testing undercover assignment for…
He was looking for bodies. He didn’t expect to become one himself.
Sergeant Frank Hardy is grinding out a living driving a Royal Mail Coach and playing rigged card games…
HE SURVIVED THE WRECK; WILL HE SURVIVE WHAT COMES NEXT?Low on cash, Sergeant Frank and his wife, each take on a task that sends them to the South Island…
New Zealand, 1881: Sgt. Frank Hardy is confined to Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, in quarantine, when an American detective tells him that his father is in trouble. A shipboard…
A body caught in a boat wreck. A young constable acting strangely. A young woman determined that her Patrick has been replaced. An international conspiracy tied to Ireland. And a…
A historic knife. A mysterious major who wants the knife. The body of a young woman found deep in the bush. And a chance for retired coachman James Hardy to…
NEW ZEALAND, 1878: Has the missing man been murdered in the dense bush, or has he simply abandoned his wife and children for another woman?
Sergeant Frank Hardy and his…
Trapped by rising flood waters on his farm, and doing his best to care for his growing family, including his pregnant wife, Mette, Frank Hardy gives shelter to two other…
Pilloried in the press, Inspector W. H. James of the Greymouth police was the man who failed to stop the worst mass murder in the history of New Zealand. In…
New Zealand 1880: A body in a ditch, a missing wife, money in short supply, and a stud horse wanted by the leader of a brutal Australian gang - Sergeant…
This anthology contains three gripping historical mysteries from The Sergeant Frank Hardy Mysteries series, set in the late nineteenth century of New Zealand:
DEAD SHOT
When the Hardys offer care…
"The 19th century New Zealand setting, the rich character development, the harkening back to so much in the history of the British Empire -- all these make for a story…
THREE SERGEANT FRANK HARDY BOOKS IN ONE, AND IN ORDER
Not the Faintest TraceWhen two young men go missing, Sergeant Hardy is asked to find them. He is reluctant. He…
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Throughout the forty-some books that Henri Nouwen wrote and the hundreds of talks that he gave, the subject of Prayer runs through them all and unites them. For him a…
