Barbara Hambly. (2011). Sold Down the River. Random House Publishing Group.

Barbara Hambly. 2011. Sold Down the River. Random House Publishing Group.

Barbara Hambly, Sold Down the River. Random House Publishing Group, 2011.

Barbara Hambly. Sold Down the River. Random House Publishing Group, 2011.

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   • bioText: Barbara Hambly attended the University of California and spent a year at the University of Bordeaux, France, obtaining a master's degree in medieval history. She has worked as both a teacher and a technical editor, but her first love has always been history. Ms. Hambly lives in Los Angeles with two Pekingese, a cat, and another writer.
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In A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust, Benjamin January penetrated the murkiest corners of glittering old New Orleans to bring murderers to justice. Now, in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he explores a vivid and violent plantation world darker than anything in the city....  Sold Down the River.
The crisp autumn air of 1834 awakens the French Town to a new season of balls and operas.  But this November there will be no waltzes played by Benjamin January, no piano lessons for Creole children.  For a shadow has emerged from his past-Simon Fourchet, the savage man to whom he was bound in slavery until the age of seven.  When someone he cannot refuse asks the favor, Benjamin reluctantly agrees to reenter the realm of his childhood on Fourchet's upriver sugar plantation.
Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, Benjamin sets out to uncover who and what lies behind the sinister happenings there.  On All Souls' night, at the dark of the moon, a fire was started in the mill.  A field gang's food has been poisoned and the butler murdered.  And voodoo curse marks appear everywhere.  If the villain cannot be discovered, every slave on Mon Triomphe will be condemned to what passes for justice.
Cutting cane from dawn to nightfall, until his bones ache and his musician's hands bleed, Benjamin strives to unlock the riddle.  Are these the omens of a slave revolt, or something more personal?  As acts of sabotage mount and voodoo signs multiply, he ponders the family in the big house:  Fourchet's pale and pious new wife, his two grown sons, and his shrewish daughter-in-law.  Then the inhabitants of the slave quarters: a proud and secretive cook, young lovers torn apart by a brutal overseer, men and women who long for loved ones sold away.  And what of the neighboring planter, feuding with Fourchet over a piece of land...  or the elusive river trader who knows so many of the servants' secrets?
Somewhere in the warp and weft of these people's lives lurks Benjamin's quarry-whose scheming could destroy not just Fourchet but all his kin and every human being he owns. And Benjamin January must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer, before he finds himself...  Sold Down the River.

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   • source: Chicago Tribune
   • content: "Magically rich and poignant... In scene after scene researched in impressive depth and presented in the cool, clear colors of photography, Hambly creates an exotic but recognizable environment for January's search for justice."
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   • content: "A darned good murder mystery."
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   • source: The Washington Times
   • content: "A notable writer of mystery fiction... This one grips the reader from start to finish."
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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "From the highborn Creoles in their river mansions to the uncivilized Americans brawling on the levee, Hambly speaks all their languages, knows all their secrets, and brings them all to life."
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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Seductive... Sweeps from lavish balls on elegant river plantations to voodoo rites in Congo Square and savage brawls in mean waterfront dives.... January proves the ideal guide through these treacherous social strata."
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   • content: "A richly detailed murder mystery with a little bit of voodoo mixed in for flavor. Don't miss this powerful series."
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   • content: "Its emotional authenticity, varied cast and rich historical trappings give the novel power and depth."
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     July 3, 2000
     The darkest time in American history comes alive in Hambley's unforgettable series of mysteries, of which this is the fourth, after Graveyard Dust. In 1835 New Orleans, Benjamin January is a Paris-educated surgeon and musician, but he's also a former slave. Along with white American policeman Abishag Shaw, Ben is asked to help out on an investigation into possible sabotage and murder at a sugar plantation up the river from the city. The catch is that the person asking is his former owner, the thoroughly evil Simon Fourchet. Ben must go to Fourchet's plantation, Mon Triomphe, and work undercover as a slave, chopping the sugarcane in the fields. Ben agrees to take on the dreadful job because he knows that if the "hoodoo" isn't found quickly, the lives and well-being of many slaves will be in jeopardy. Already, "les blankittes" (the whites) believe a slave revolt is brewing on the plantation, and their punishment of the slaves will surely be terrible if more incidents occur. In order to learn the truth, Ben has to undergo all the appalling and humiliating experiences that the plantation slaves routinely endure. Hambly's fiercely burning picture of the horrors of slavery inevitably overwhelms the specifics of the plot, but she evokes the period marvelously, piling detail upon detail to create a finely wrought portrait of the daily lives of slaves on the notorious Louisiana sugar plantations. And her mastery of the slave songs, the backbreaking labor of the harvest, the African-French-Creole culture and the medicine (both traditional and voodoo) is astonishing.

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The crisp autumn air of 1834 awakens the French Town to a new season of balls and operas.  But this November there will be no waltzes played by Benjamin January, no piano lessons for Creole children.  For a shadow has emerged from his past-Simon Fourchet, the savage man to whom he was bound in slavery until the age of seven.  When someone he cannot refuse asks the favor, Benjamin reluctantly agrees to reenter the realm of his childhood on Fourchet's upriver sugar plantation.
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