Days of the Dead (Benjamin January, Book 7)

Days of the Dead (Benjamin January, Book 7)

The New York Times hails Barbara Hamblyâ€™s novels featuring Benjamin January as â€œmasterly,â€ â€œravishing,â€ and â€œhaunting.â€ The Chicago Tribune crowns them â€œdazzlingâ€¦January is a wonderfully rich and complex character.â€ Now the bestselling author returns with a story that leads January from the dangerously sensual milieu of New Orleans into a world seething with superstition and dark spirits, where one manâ€™s freedom turns on a case of murder and blood vengeance.

Days of the Dead

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 theyâ€™ll find Hannibal Sefton aliveâ€”and not hanging from the end of a rope.Sefton stands accused of murdering the only son of prominent landowner Don Prospero de Castellon. But when Benjamin and Rose arrive at Hacienda MictlÃ¡n, they encounter a murky tangle of family relations, and more than one suspect in young Fernandoâ€™s murder.

While the evidence against Hannibal is damning, Benjamin is certain that his consumptive, peace-loving fellow musician isnâ€™t capable of murder. Their only allies are the dead boyâ€™s half sister, who happens to be Hannibalâ€™s latest inamorata, and the mentally unstable Castellon himself, who awaits Mexicoâ€™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 capitalâ€™s back streets and barrios to the legendary pyramids of MictlÃ¡n 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 whoâ€™s determined to escape the day of reckoning and add Benjamin and Rose to the swelling ranks of the dead.
Country USA
Brand Hambly, Barbara
Manufacturer Bantam
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780553581621
ReleaseDate 2004-04-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780553581621

Country	USA
Brand	Hambly, Barbara
Manufacturer	Bantam
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780553581621
ReleaseDate	2004-04-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780553581621

Days of the Dead (Benjamin January, Book 7)

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