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As a cholera epidemic weaves its way through the corners of 1833 New Orleans, Benjamin January's healing talents are stretched to the limit, leading him into a dark web of lies that will threaten his freedom and his life. Reprint. NYT.

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The fourth novel in the highly acclaimed historical mystery series finds freed slave Benjamin January upriver from New Orleans to help his former master, Simon Fourchet, investigate a mystery on one of his plantations. Reprint.

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When the body of an elderly freedwoman turns up near a decrepit shack, Benjamin January and his lover Rose become involved in an investigation into a crime that could be linked to rumors of a fortune in hidden gold.

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It is 1833. In the midst of Marti 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. And soon the eyes of suspicion turn toward Ben, for, black as the slave who fathered him, this free man of color is still the perfect scapegoat.