Barbara Hambly
Good Man Friday
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Piano-playing, crime-solving Benjamin January returns in a new installment of Barbara Hambly’s excellent mystery series. This time, instead of his usual haunt ...Read Review
The Shirt on His Back
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In this newest installment in the Benjamin January mystery series, Ben sets off from New Orleans with friends Hannibal Sefton and Lieutenant Abishag ...Read Review
Homeland
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Set during the American Civil War, Homeland is not just an epistolary novel; it’s a heartfelt conversation between two women, one ...Read Review
Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers
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Patriot Hearts tells the stories of four women: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemings, and Dolley Madison. It opens in 1814, with Dolley Madison ...Read Review
Dead Water
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Ben January has a personal stake in finding the embezzler. He stands to lose his own money and his house if the banker ...Read Review
The Emancipator’s Wife
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As an avid reader of historical fiction, I like to think I’ve learned the difference between a good story and a great ...Read Review
Wet Grave
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Once Hesione LeGros was a high-flyer, a corsair’s beautiful mistress. But that was twenty years ago, during the heyday of such buccaneers ...Read Review
Die Upon a Kiss
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In 1830s New Orleans they don’t have cable TV, the Internet, or the WWF — but they do have opera! It’s the ...Read Review
Graveyard Dust (Benjamin January)
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In 1834 New Orleans, just prior to his death, Isaak Jumon accuses his spouse Celie of poisoning him. At least that is the conclusion ...Read Review
Sold Down the River
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Big, black, and smart, Ben January signs on as private detective for the man who once owned him and his mother. He’s ...Read Review
