Benjamin January Historical Mystery: Dead and Buried (Hardcover)

from auntieknickers

It's been fartoo long since DEAD WATER, but here is a new book (and a newpublisher) for Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January.It's late summer (that is, about now) in New Orleans in 1836. January,a free man of color, trained as a physician in Paris but has beenmaking his living as a musician since re...

from delphica

I've always liked this series a lot, but apparently got out of the habit of periodically checking for new ones, because now there are like twelve or some crazy number, and I was a bit behind. The broad strokes of the series are that you have this guy who is a free person of color in New Orleans a...

from heaward

I was so happy to get reacquainted with Benjamin January and 19th-century New Orleans. It's always fascinating to learn about the shifting rules of society among the different groups of people who lived there whether influenced by French, Spanish, Caribbean, African, or American government and mo...

from etxgardener

After a dry spell of several years, Barbara Hambly has published two new Benjamin January mysteries in the past two years. I read this one out of sequence, reading the most recent book, The Shirt on His Back, first & finding it a disappointment. With Dead and Buried however, Ms. Hambly is back in...

from Romonko

Man it's been a long time since I read a Benjamin January mystery, and I have missed him. I absolutely love this series, and this book is a winner too. Ms. Hambly brings her era live with this series. This book is set in New Orleans in the year 1836. This is a story of old family secrets, unrequi...