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Sold Down the River (Benjamin January #4) (Mass Market)
$7.99
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Other Books in Series
This is book number 4 in the Benjamin January series.
- #1: A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January #1) (Mass Market): $8.99
- #2: Fever Season (Benjamin January #2) (Mass Market): $9.99
- #5: Die Upon a Kiss (Benjamin January #5) (Mass Market): $7.99
- #6: Wet Grave (Benjamin January #6) (Mass Market): $7.99
- #7: Days of the Dead (Benjamin January Mysteries #7) (Compact Disc): $34.95
- #8: Dead Water (Benjamin January #8) (Mass Market): $7.99
- #9: Dead and Buried (Benjamin January Mystery #9) (Paperback): $17.95
- #10: Shirt on His Back (Benjamin January Mysteries #10) (Paperback): $17.95
- #11: Ran Away (Benjamin January Mystery #11) (Paperback): $17.95
- #12: Good Man Friday (Benjamin January Mystery #12) (Paperback): $17.95
- #13: Crimson Angel (Benjamin January Mystery #13) (Paperback): $17.95
- #14: The Drinking Gourd (Benjamin January Mystery #14) (Paperback): $17.95
- #15: Murder in July (Benjamin January Mystery #15) (Paperback): $17.95
- #16: Cold Bayou (Benjamin January Mystery #16) (Paperback): $17.95
- #17: Lady of Perdition (Benjamin January Mystery #17) (Paperback): $17.95
- #18: House of the Patriarch (Benjamin January Mystery #18) (Paperback): $18.99
- #19: Death and Hard Cider (Benjamin January Mystery #19) (Hardcover): $28.99
Description
Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent plantation world darker than anything in the city....
When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer.
Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his musician's hands bleed, Benjamin must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer ... or find himself sold down the river.
About the Author
Barbara Hambly attended the University of California and spent a year at the University of Bordeaux, France, obtaining a master's degree in medieval history. She has worked as both a teacher and a technical editor, but her first love has always been history. Ms. Hambly lives in Los Angeles with two Pekingese, a cat, and another writer.
Praise For…
"A masterly piece of historical storytelling."— The New York Times Book Review
"Searing."— Kirkus Reviews
"The novel's plot is filled with brilliant twists and Hambly writes with inspired magic."— News & Record, Greensboro, NC
"The darkest time in American history comes alive in Hambly's unforgettable series.... [A] fiercely burning picture of the horrors of slavery ... astonishing."— Publishers Weekly
Don't miss the other books in Barbara Hambly's "remarkable"(The New York Times Book Review) series featuring Benjamin January:
A Free Man of Color
Fever Season
Graveyard Dust
Now available from Bantam Books
And coming soon in hardcover:
Die Upon a Kiss
