| Cold Bayou First World Pub Edition Contributor(s): Hambly, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 072788798X ISBN-13: 9780727887986 Publisher: Severn House OUR PRICE: $26.09 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | African American - Historical - Fiction | African American - Mystery & Detective |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Series: Benjamin January Mystery |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride ... The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery. "Don't go to Cold Bayou, brother ... Nuthin' good waiting for you there." New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner Veryl St-Chinian. All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old, profoundly infatuated Uncle Veryl to an 18-year-old Irish tavern-slut spells potential disaster for everyone in the inter-married Viellard and St-Chinian clans. But the old man is determined to marry Miss Ellie Trask, and nothing will stand in his way. On the isolated plantation of Cold Bayou where the ceremony is to take place, tension is rife even before the body is discovered in the woods behind the dower house, its throat cut. A yet more disturbing turn of events sees January himself accused of the crime... |
Contributor Bio(s): Hambly, Barbara: - Barbara Hambly, though a native of Southern California, lived in New Orleans for many years while married to the late science fiction writer George Alec Effinger. Hambly holds a degree in medieval history from the University of California and has written novels in numerous genres. |