Mid-1800s New Zealand is home to the Māori, a large contingent of immigrants from Denmark, and other settlers. Sergeant Frank Hardy becomes a detective in this first book in a series trying to track the bodies of two drowned Danish boys and ending up attempting to solve murders that may be tracked to conduct by the military trying to pacify the land. It looks like he’ll pair up with a Danish woman Mette, who goes to work in the town bookshop. I enjoyed this book and it’s tempting to continue to read the series.