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Sold Down the River
The Benjamin January Mysteries (Book 4)
- Author
- Barbara Hambly
- Narrator
- Ron Butler
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 13 April 2021
- Run Time
- 12 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“A masterly piece of historical storytelling.”
New York Times Book Review
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“The novel’s plot is filled with brilliant twists and Hambly writes with inspired magic.”
Greensboro News & Record (North Carolina)
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“Searing.”
Kirkus Reviews
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“Hambly effectively combines three genres—mystery, historical fiction, mainstream melodrama—in this disturbing but quite moving story.”
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“The darkest time in American history comes alive in Hambly’s unforgettable series…. [A] fiercely burning picture of the horrors of slavery … astonishing.”
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Details
- Author
- Barbara Hambly
- Narrator
- Ron Butler
- Duration
- 12 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 April 2021
- ISBN
- 9781799922254
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Historical crime and mysteries
Synopsis
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.
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