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Days of the Dead
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 7
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Series: The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 7
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Dead Water
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 8
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it’s into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it’s more than just a job for January. The missing money is vital to the survival of the school for freed slaves that he and his wife, Rose, have founded.
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Wet Grave
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 6
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1835, and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros - once a corsair’s jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag - is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans’ most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at a demimonde banquet years ago.
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Dead and Buried
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 9
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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New Orleans, 1836. When free Black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin - only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Just one person recognizes the corpse of the White man: Hannibal Sefton, fiddle-player and one of January’s closest friends. But he seems unwilling to talk about his connection to the dead man....
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Sold Down the River
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Graveyard Dust
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 3
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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It is St. John’s Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January - Creole physician and music teacher - is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe - mystical and rebellious - is a woman of color, whose chance for justice is slim. As Benjamin probes the allegation, he is targeted by a new threat: graveyard dust sprinkled at his door, whispering of a voodoo death curse. Now, to save Olympe’s life - and his own - Benjamin knows he must glean information wherever he can find it.
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Twisty
- By Ishy Neville on 16-02-2022
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The Shirt on His Back
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 10
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother’s murder - and Benjamin January is seeking money after his bank crashes. Far beyond the frontier, in the depths of the Rocky Mountains, both men are to be found at the great Rendezvous of the Mountain Men, a month-long orgy of cheap booze, shooting matches, tall tales, and cutthroat trading. But at the rendezvous, the discovery of a corpse opens the door to hints of a greater plot - of madness and wholesale murder.
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Dead Water
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 8
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it’s into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it’s more than just a job for January. The missing money is vital to the survival of the school for freed slaves that he and his wife, Rose, have founded.
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Wet Grave
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 6
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
It’s 1835, and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros - once a corsair’s jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag - is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans’ most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at a demimonde banquet years ago.
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Dead and Buried
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 9
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
New Orleans, 1836. When free Black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin - only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Just one person recognizes the corpse of the White man: Hannibal Sefton, fiddle-player and one of January’s closest friends. But he seems unwilling to talk about his connection to the dead man....
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Sold Down the River
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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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Graveyard Dust
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 3
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It is St. John’s Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January - Creole physician and music teacher - is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe - mystical and rebellious - is a woman of color, whose chance for justice is slim. As Benjamin probes the allegation, he is targeted by a new threat: graveyard dust sprinkled at his door, whispering of a voodoo death curse. Now, to save Olympe’s life - and his own - Benjamin knows he must glean information wherever he can find it.
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Twisty
- By Ishy Neville on 16-02-2022
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The Shirt on His Back
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 10
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother’s murder - and Benjamin January is seeking money after his bank crashes. Far beyond the frontier, in the depths of the Rocky Mountains, both men are to be found at the great Rendezvous of the Mountain Men, a month-long orgy of cheap booze, shooting matches, tall tales, and cutthroat trading. But at the rendezvous, the discovery of a corpse opens the door to hints of a greater plot - of madness and wholesale murder.
Publisher's Summary
Mexico City in the autumn of 1835 is a lawless place, teeming with bandits and beggars. But an urgent letter from a desperate friend draws Benjamin January and his new bride Rose from New Orleans to this newly free province. Here they pray they’ll find Hannibal Sefton alive - and not hanging from the end of a rope.
Sefton stands accused of murdering the only son of prominent landowner Don Prospero de Castellón. But when Benjamin and Rose arrive at Hacienda Mictlán, they encounter a murky tangle of family relations and more than one suspect in young Fernando’s murder.
While the evidence against Hannibal is damning, Benjamin is certain that his consumptive, peace-loving fellow musician isn’t capable of murder. Their only allies are the dead boy’s half sister, who happens to be Hannibal’s latest inamorata, and the mentally unstable Castellón himself, who awaits Mexico’s holy Days of the Dead, when he believes his slain son will himself reveal the identity of his killer.
The search for the truth will lead Benjamin and Rose down a path that winds from the mazes of the capital’s back streets and barrios to the legendary pyramids of Mictlán and, finally, to a place where spirits walk and the dead cry out for justice. But before they can lay to rest the ghosts of the past, Benjamin and Rose will have to stop a flesh-and-blood murderer who’s determined to escape the day of reckoning and add Benjamin and Rose to the swelling ranks of the dead.
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