The Nubian's Curse
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A cursed statue . . . A haunted house . . . A seemingly supernatural death . . . The unexpected arrival of a friend from his past plunges musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January into an old, unsolved case in this historical mystery set in New Orleans
"Outstanding . . . fastidious period detail, and a consistently surprising investigation" Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"[Benjamin January is] a winning character, nimbly moving through parts of history we should all know better" New York Times
December 1840. Surgeon turned piano-player Benjamin January is looking forward to a peaceful holiday with his family. But the arrival of an old friend brings unexpected news - and unexpected danger.
Persephone Jondrette has found Arithmus: a Sudanese man with extraordinary mental abilities who January last saw in France, nearly fifteen years ago, during a ghost-hunting expedition to a haunted chateau. January and his friends survived the experience . . . but Arithmus' benefactor, the British explorer Deverel Wishart, did not. He was discovered dead one morning, his face twisted in horror, and shortly afterwards Arithmus vanished, never to be seen again.
Did Deverel succumb to the chateau's ghosts - or did Arithmus murder him and run away? January is determined to uncover the truth about the tragic incident from his past, and clear his old friend's name - but even he isn't prepared for what happens next . . .
The Nubian's Curse by NYT-bestselling author Barbara Hambly is the latest instalment of the critically acclaimed historical mystery series featuring talented amateur sleuth and free man of color, Benjamin January.
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Barbara Hambly. (2024). The Nubian's Curse. Severn House.
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"Outstanding . . . fastidious period detail, and a consistently surprising investigation" Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"[Benjamin January is] a winning character, nimbly moving through parts of history we should all know better" New York Times
December 1840. Surgeon turned piano-player Benjamin January is looking forward to a peaceful holiday with his family. But the arrival of an old friend brings unexpected news - and unexpected danger.
Persephone Jondrette has found Arithmus: a Sudanese man with extraordinary mental abilities who January last saw in France, nearly fifteen years ago, during a ghost-hunting expedition to a haunted chateau. January and his friends survived the experience . . . but Arithmus' benefactor, the British explorer Deverel Wishart, did not. He was discovered dead one morning, his face twisted in horror, and shortly afterwards Arithmus vanished, never to be seen again.
Did Deverel succumb to the chateau's ghosts - or did Arithmus murder him and run away? January is determined to uncover the truth about the tragic incident from his past, and clear his old friend's name - but even he isn't prepared for what happens next . . .
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Starred review from December 15, 2019
Texas, 1840. Benjamin January, physician, music teacher, and sleuth, has left his New Orleans home to track down a woman who's run off with a disreputable man who has apparently sold her into slavery. Unlike Louisiana, where a free Black man like January can live in relative peace, Texas is a very different place, proclaiming itself a slaveholder's paradise. In coming here to find the woman, January is literally risking his own life, which becomes all too clear when he is nearly hanged, saved only by the efforts of Valentina Taggart, wife of a powerful land baron. When Valentina is accused of the murder of her husband, she turns to Benjamin for help. This seventeenth installment in the series may well be the best of the bunch; although the quality of the January novels has been high from the beginning, this one profits from the historically accurate and deeply disturbing portrait of Texas before statehood. It's a stark and occasionally brutal story, and Hambly tells it superbly, in prose that is vivid and empathetic. For fans of this fine series, this is a must-read.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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December 1, 2023
If you're counting, this is the twentieth Benjamin January mystery (the first, A Free Man of Color, was published in 1997). Benjamin, an early nineteenth-century free Black man, is a former surgeon, a musician, and a sleuth. He has lost none of his appeal over the course of the series; if anything, he's more interesting now than he was at the outset, because the author keeps revealing new facets of his character. Here Benjamin endeavors to determine whether a man who died 15 years ago was the victim of murder or of something more supernatural. It's fascinating to see Hambly apply the cold-case format to an historical mystery, to see Benjamin, in the absence of any of today's forensic techniques, uncover the long-buried truth. Hambly, who's written a lot of sf and fantasy, including a series about vampires in early twentieth-century London, is a terrific storyteller; she builds a world that feels very real with fully realized characters. In the Benjamin January novels, we feel like we've been transported to a different time and place. Wonderful.COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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"Outstanding . . . fastidious period detail, and a consistently surprising investigation" Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"[Benjamin January is] a winning character, nimbly moving through parts of history we should all know better" New York Times
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