- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd (22 Jan 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0727868675
- ISBN-13: 978-0727868671
- Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 14.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 693,813 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Musician Benjamin January is attending the funeral of a friend, when a mishap at the graveside sends the coffin tumbling, and it breaks open to reveal the corpse of a complete stranger. Once again Benjamin must solve the mystery and navigate his way through the complex, frequently dangerous world of 1830's New Orleans, with its strict hierarchies of caste and its lively politics.
If you enjoy well-written mysteries with an atmospheric setting and complex characterisation, Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January books are highly recommended. The first book in the series is 'A Free Man of Color'.
If you enjoy well-written mysteries with an atmospheric setting and complex characterisation, Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January books are highly recommended. The first book in the series is 'A Free Man of Color'.
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful
The much welcomed return of Benjamin January...
14 Mar 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
not to mention Hannibal Sefton, Abishag Shaw, Rose and many others!
For those of us who have been long intrigued by the mysterious past of Hannibal Sefton, our patience has been amply rewarded. I will not deliver any spoilers here but say that I immensely enjoyed the history of how the erudite and courtly but dissolute Irishman ended up making his meager living fiddling in New Orleans, as well as the glimpse of those friends and family that he left behind him. Now that we know a little more about Sefton I'm looking forward to learning the background of the surreptitiously sharp Kaintuck City Guard Shaw and how he developed his passion for pursuing justice in the notoriously corrupt environment he works in.
Barbara Hambly has again delivered a mystery that compelled me to forsake sleep until the last page was turned. If you are looking for a mystery with absorbing multi-dimensional characters, an engrossing historical look at the unique racial and familial relations of New Orleans in the early 1800s or just simply an entertaining story you can not do wrong with any of Hambly's Benjamin January series!
For those of us who have been long intrigued by the mysterious past of Hannibal Sefton, our patience has been amply rewarded. I will not deliver any spoilers here but say that I immensely enjoyed the history of how the erudite and courtly but dissolute Irishman ended up making his meager living fiddling in New Orleans, as well as the glimpse of those friends and family that he left behind him. Now that we know a little more about Sefton I'm looking forward to learning the background of the surreptitiously sharp Kaintuck City Guard Shaw and how he developed his passion for pursuing justice in the notoriously corrupt environment he works in.
Barbara Hambly has again delivered a mystery that compelled me to forsake sleep until the last page was turned. If you are looking for a mystery with absorbing multi-dimensional characters, an engrossing historical look at the unique racial and familial relations of New Orleans in the early 1800s or just simply an entertaining story you can not do wrong with any of Hambly's Benjamin January series!
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Benjamin and friends are back!
3 April 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
What a great book Barbara Hambly has given us for the return of her terrific character, Benjamin January. The mystery is excellent and because of it we learn all about Ben's close friend, Hannibal--someone I'm sure all fans of this series, like myself, have been waiting to find out about. Ms. Hambly's books continue to be a tremendous source for learning more about slavery, race relations and the gens du couleur libre in New Orleans in the 1800s.
I sure wish that one of the books in this great series would be made into a major motion picture or a Masterpiece Theater production. They truly deserve to be!
I sure wish that one of the books in this great series would be made into a major motion picture or a Masterpiece Theater production. They truly deserve to be!
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Welcome Back, M'sieu Janvier!
4 Aug 2010
Format:Hardcover
Barbara Hambly, despite not having written my favorite books, may be my favorite single author--I've followed her from fantasy to horror to mystery to historical fiction and loved so much of what I've read. I care about her protagonists. I want to follow their stories. It's such a disappointment that various publishers have discontinued her series; bless Severn House for bringing Benjamin January back to us!
Having said that... the combination of very small indents and a large font in the typesetting, and single quotations where I'm used to double--is this a British thing?--doesn't read well. It's the only down side to the book. Of course, I'd rather have a January story set this way than no January story at all.
The series began in 1998 with _A Free Man of Color_. Benjamin January is the titular colored gentleman, a musician, trained as a surgeon in Paris, living again in the city of his birth. Three years have passed since he returned to New Orleans and while he still earns his pay with a piano, he has married for the second time and owns a good-sized house in town. His friend Hannibal Sefton has been near his side from the start. Neither we nor January have ever known much about Hannibal's past. That's sure to change, for the white corpse discovered in a black man's coffin belongs to someone the fiddler once knew, and Hannibal is strangely adamant that Patrick Derryhick couldn't have been killed by Viscount Foxford despite the young man's ample motive....
Ms. Hambly hasn't lost her touch in the five years since _Dead Water_ came out, and January, Hannibal, and New Orleans are splendid as ever. There aren't any historical figures in this one so far as I know, and Rose plays a minor part. I count both in the plus column--I used to worry January would be replaced as the hero by the adventurous husband-and-wife team. Not so, thankfully. Familiar faces from other stories turn up, but if you don't recognize them, it won't make a difference. The main reason to read the older books first (aside from enjoyment!) is to get familiar with the culture of New Orleans circa 1836, and even that isn't critical. You could begin the series here. The plot is as fast-moving and edged with danger as any, the descriptions as rich, the mores of that time and place as unsettling.
Finally getting Hannibal's backstory makes _Dead and Buried_ particular great, if the Latin-quoting fiddler is one of your favorite characters as he is mine--the revelations don't change how much I enjoy him, either, they're just a chunk of his puzzle slotting into place.
Everybody who likes period mysteries and has any interest at all in pre-Civil War New Orleans should find themselves a copy at once! And pass the word along! It's a rare series that isn't flagging by its ninth book; Benjamin January shows no sign of running out of grim puzzles to solve or social struggles to overcome, nor Barbara Hambly out of savoir faire.
Having said that... the combination of very small indents and a large font in the typesetting, and single quotations where I'm used to double--is this a British thing?--doesn't read well. It's the only down side to the book. Of course, I'd rather have a January story set this way than no January story at all.
The series began in 1998 with _A Free Man of Color_. Benjamin January is the titular colored gentleman, a musician, trained as a surgeon in Paris, living again in the city of his birth. Three years have passed since he returned to New Orleans and while he still earns his pay with a piano, he has married for the second time and owns a good-sized house in town. His friend Hannibal Sefton has been near his side from the start. Neither we nor January have ever known much about Hannibal's past. That's sure to change, for the white corpse discovered in a black man's coffin belongs to someone the fiddler once knew, and Hannibal is strangely adamant that Patrick Derryhick couldn't have been killed by Viscount Foxford despite the young man's ample motive....
Ms. Hambly hasn't lost her touch in the five years since _Dead Water_ came out, and January, Hannibal, and New Orleans are splendid as ever. There aren't any historical figures in this one so far as I know, and Rose plays a minor part. I count both in the plus column--I used to worry January would be replaced as the hero by the adventurous husband-and-wife team. Not so, thankfully. Familiar faces from other stories turn up, but if you don't recognize them, it won't make a difference. The main reason to read the older books first (aside from enjoyment!) is to get familiar with the culture of New Orleans circa 1836, and even that isn't critical. You could begin the series here. The plot is as fast-moving and edged with danger as any, the descriptions as rich, the mores of that time and place as unsettling.
Finally getting Hannibal's backstory makes _Dead and Buried_ particular great, if the Latin-quoting fiddler is one of your favorite characters as he is mine--the revelations don't change how much I enjoy him, either, they're just a chunk of his puzzle slotting into place.
Everybody who likes period mysteries and has any interest at all in pre-Civil War New Orleans should find themselves a copy at once! And pass the word along! It's a rare series that isn't flagging by its ninth book; Benjamin January shows no sign of running out of grim puzzles to solve or social struggles to overcome, nor Barbara Hambly out of savoir faire.
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