Murder in July
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Barbara Hambly. (2017). Murder in July. Severn House.

Barbara Hambly. 2017. Murder in July. Severn House.

Barbara Hambly, Murder in July. Severn House, 2017.

Barbara Hambly. Murder in July. Severn House, 2017.

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Benjamin January investigates the murder of a mysterious Englishman in this absorbing New Orleans-set mystery.
When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal, Benjamin turns him down immediately. As a free man of colour in New Orleans in the sweltering July of 1839, he knows this is not something he should get mixed up in.
But when clues to the dead man's identity link the death to another murder, in another July in January's past, he is reluctantly drawn into the investigation. Nine years ago in Paris he failed to catch a killer – with tragic consequences. Now in New Orleans he must unravel the earlier murder, the one that took place during the great revolt against the Bourbon kings, to solve the second killing. At stake is not merely a hundred dollars, but hidden treasure, the fate of an innocent woman – and the lives of January's wife, son and unborn child.|When the body of a mysterious Englishman is found floating in New Orleans' New Basin Canal, Benjamin January uncovers a link to another unsolved murder in Paris nine years before. Now he must unravel the earlier murder in order to solve this second killing. At stake are the lives of his wife, son and unborn child.

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     August 24, 2015
     In the sixth installment of the James Asher vampire series, Hambly (Kindred of Darkness) deftly nests one historical story inside another. The key to a mystery on the eve of WWI lies in James Asher’s fever dreams reliving the exploits of his old friend Don Simon Ysidro at the beginning of the 17th century, when Simon navigated the politics of religious dissent among his fellow vampires in Paris. When James’s practical wife, Lydia, receives word that he has been tossed from a church steeple in Paris in a vampire attack, she calls upon Simon for resources and protection while James heals in a hospital, despite James’s new resolve to destroy all vampires. Series regulars who crave more of Simon’s backstory will find the focus on him satisfying, and Lydia’s fans will enjoy her skills in medicine, disguise, lock picking, and not dissolving in sunlight, though those more focused on continuity may dislike that Hambly leaves James and Lydia’s new baby out of the story entirely. It’s not a standout on its own, but this book is a solid continuation of a strong series.

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     October 1, 2017
     The new Benjamin January novel finds the nineteenth-century Louisiana musician and sleuth reaching into his own past to solve a murder in the present. Nearly a decade ago, in France, he let a murderer get away; now, an offer from a British spy could let him redeem his mistake and bring another killer to justice. But how far is he willing to go? Will he put his own life and the lives of his family at risk? January is a wonderful character, a former slave who is now a professional piano player and amateur crime-solver, a man of color living in a world dominated and controlled by people who believe anyone who looks different from them is not worthy of their consideration or respect. Hambly does a fine job of presenting January's world realistically, and the mysteries January is called upon to solve feel appropriate to their historical period, but at the same time entirely contemporary. Perhaps because murder is timeless.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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     October 23, 2017
     Set in New Orleans in 1839, Hambly’s fascinating 15th Benjamin January novel (after 2016’s Drinking Gourd) finds the freed slave and Paris-trained doctor and his pregnant wife, Rose, planning to open a school to educate “colored girls.” On a sweltering July day, Sir John Oldmixton of the British Consulate, who’s well acquainted with January’s intelligence and discretion, asks him to recover some documents that were in the possession of Henry Brooke, an Englishman who was recently discovered shot to death and floating in a canal. January’s first impulse is to refuse, but when Jacquette Filoux, a black woman who had been Brooke’s mistress, is accused of the crime, he decides to investigate. That Jacquette’s young daughter openly declares that her mother shot Mr. Brooke complicates January’s task. As he digs deeper, he uncovers parallels between Brooke’s murder and one that occurred when he was in Paris a decade before. This well-researched mystery offers readers an appealing cast of characters, a suitably complex plot, and some eye-opening historical details. Agent: Frances Collin, Frances Collin Literary.

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     October 1, 2017
     A tale of two cities--and two strangely similar murders.New Orleans is perilous for a free man of color who could easily be kidnapped off the street and sold into slavery in 1839. That's just one of the reasons Benjamin January initially turns down British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton's tempting offer of $100 to find personal papers missing from the body of Henry Brooke, shot dead with a muff pistol, his body thrown into a turning basin. The mention of the muff pistol turns January's thoughts to Paris, where he lived nine years ago with Ayasha, his pregnant first wife, and worked as a musician whose wide variety of acquaintances included wealthy Daniel Ben-Gideon and his aristocratic wife, Anne. The latest lover of Daniel, who preferred men, was Phillipe de la Marche, a dumb but beautiful aristocrat. For her part, Anne had taken her brother's Irish fencing master as her lover. When Phillipe was found shot dead by a muff gun on the barricades of a short-lived revolution, his parents used their considerable influence to have Anne arrested for the murder, leaving January and his friends to do everything they could to save her. Back in New Orleans with his pregnant second wife, Rose, January is loath to get involved in Brooke's murder, but his sister Olympe asks him to help prove the innocence of Jacquette Filoux, who'd opened her home to Brooke. January counts for help on his white friend Hannibal (Drinking Gourd, 2016, etc.), who'd also lived in Paris and is aware of the eerie similarity in the murders. In the heavily stratified society, black people, no matter how pale their skin, are always in danger. But they have many ways of fighting back, and January's sends an army of unnoticeable spies to search for Jacquette's brother, who's run off to escape his gambling debts despite having knowledge that could free his sister.Hambly's most complex mystery to date, filled with horrifying historical detail about the lives of subjugated people, ends with a shocking denouement.

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But when clues to the dead man's identity link the death to another murder, in another July in January's past, he is reluctantly drawn into the investigation. Nine years ago in Paris he failed to catch a killer – with tragic consequences. Now in New Orleans he must unravel the earlier murder, the one that took place during the great revolt against the Bourbon kings, to solve the second killing. At stake is not merely a hundred dollars, but hidden treasure, the fate of an innocent woman – and the...

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