The Benjamin January Mysteries
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Book 1
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A Free Man of Color
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evening's festivities are interrupted - by murder. The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death.
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The narrator was good but not great
- By justin black on 03-04-21
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A Free Man of Color
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 1
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-03-20
- Language: English
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Book 2
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Fever Season
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the city is stalked by Bronze John - the popular name for the deadly yellow fever epidemic that tests the healing skills of doctor and voodoo alike. Even as Benjamin January tends the dying at Charity Hospital during the steaming nights, he continues his work as a music teacher during the day. When he is asked to pass a message from a runaway slave to the servant of one of his students, January finds himself swept into a tempest of lies, greed, and murder that rivals the storms battering New Orleans.
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Great story, wonderful characters, more please.
- By Francis on 12-20-20
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Fever Season
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 2
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-24-20
- Language: English
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Book 3
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Graveyard Dust
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 3
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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It is St. John’s Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January - Creole physician and music teacher - is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe - mystical and rebellious - is a woman of color, whose chance for justice is slim. As Benjamin probes the allegation, he is targeted by a new threat: graveyard dust sprinkled at his door, whispering of a voodoo death curse. Now, to save Olympe’s life - and his own - Benjamin knows he must glean information wherever he can find it.
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Love Ben January!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-17-24
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Graveyard Dust
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 3
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-08-20
- Language: English
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Book 4
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Sold Down the River
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his musician’s hands bleed, Benjamin must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer - or find himself sold down the river.
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Exceptional series
- By RoxAnne on 04-18-22
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Sold Down the River
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-12-21
- Language: English
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Book 5
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Die upon a Kiss
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater’s impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it’s pitch-black in the alley where free man of color Benjamin January hears a slurred whisper, spies the flash of a knife, and is himself wounded as he rescues Belaggio from a vicious attack. Could competition for audiences - or for Belagio’s affections - provoke such violent skulduggery?
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Die upon a Kiss
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Book 6
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Wet Grave
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 6
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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It’s 1835, and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros - once a corsair’s jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag - is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans’ most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at a demimonde banquet years ago.
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Wet Grave
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 6
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-09-21
- Language: English
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Book 7
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Days of the Dead
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 7
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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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 they’ll find Hannibal Sefton alive - and not hanging from the end of a rope.
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Another entertaining history lesson
- By Amazon Customer on 02-20-23
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Days of the Dead
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 7
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-13-21
- Language: English
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Book 8
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Dead Water
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 8
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it’s into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it’s more than just a job for January. The missing money is vital to the survival of the school for freed slaves that he and his wife, Rose, have founded.
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Another good entry in the interesting series
- By Milford Mom on 02-11-24
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Dead Water
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 8
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-11-21
- Language: English
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Book 9
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Dead and Buried
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 9
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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New Orleans, 1836. When free Black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin - only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Just one person recognizes the corpse of the White man: Hannibal Sefton, fiddle-player and one of January’s closest friends. But he seems unwilling to talk about his connection to the dead man....
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Another complex and compelling entry in the series
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-22
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Dead and Buried
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 9
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-08-21
- Language: English
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Book 10
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The Shirt on His Back
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 10
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother’s murder - and Benjamin January is seeking money after his bank crashes. Far beyond the frontier, in the depths of the Rocky Mountains, both men are to be found at the great Rendezvous of the Mountain Men, a month-long orgy of cheap booze, shooting matches, tall tales, and cutthroat trading. But at the rendezvous, the discovery of a corpse opens the door to hints of a greater plot - of madness and wholesale murder.
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My heart!!!
- By Kelly C Boan on 01-05-24
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The Shirt on His Back
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 10
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-13-21
- Language: English
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Book 11
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Ran Away
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 11
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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RAN AWAY. So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who’d fled their masters. But the Turk, Hüseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a witness proclaimed he’d seen the “devilish infidel” hurl their dead bodies out of a window, everyone was willing to believe him the murderer. Only Benjamin January, who knows the Turk of old, is willing to seek for the true culprit, endangering his own life in the process.
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These Books are Amazing
- By Carolyn L on 08-28-21
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Ran Away
- The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 11
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-10-21
- Language: English
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Book 12
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Good Man Friday
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city's wealthy are no longer required, he ends up agreeing to accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife, Chloe, on a mission to Washington to find a missing friend. Plunged into a murky world, it soon becomes clear that while it is very possible the Viellards' friend is dead, his enemies are very much alive - and ready to kill anyone who gets in their way.
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Great Detective Series
- By Suzanne Baldon on 09-11-20
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Good Man Friday
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-03-13
- Language: English
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Book 14
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Book 15
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Book 16
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Book 17
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Book 18
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House of the Patriarch
- The Benjamin January Mysteries
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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No one can talk to the dead...can they? Free man of color Benjamin January gets caught up in a strange, spiritual world that might lead to his own demise, as he hunts for a missing teenager in this gripping, atmospheric historical mystery. New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloë Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can’t say no.
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Another rich tale of racial realities in the early 19th century
- By Amazon Customer on 03-02-23
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House of the Patriarch
- The Benjamin January Mysteries
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-14-21
- Language: English
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