Read Series: Benjamin January
by Author Barbara Hambly
Days of the Dead (2004)
2.5 stars. It was nice to spend time with Benjamin, Rose and Hannibal again, and this novel was as well written as all of Hambly's work, but this isn't one of my favorites in this series. After the events of the previous book I was eager to see how their lives in New Orleans would change, but ins...
Graveyard Dust (2000)
Benjamin January # 3! This one was way less grim than Fever Season. I realize that's easy to say, so I will give it an independent grimness rating.Grimness of content: Medium. Racism and other isms, slavery, murder; child abuse is discussed but not shown.Grimness of tone: Low. The subtitle is "a ...
Fever Season (1999)
It strikes me as very risky for a writer to write an historical "whodunnit" featuring an actual infamous figure from the past. This particular person is not exactly a household name, but for someone who (like me) has taken more than one Haunted History tour of New Orleans, it probably won't take ...
Sold Down the River (2001)
Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent plantation world darker than anything in the city...
Die Upon a Kiss (2002)
DIE UPON A KISS (Hist. Mys-Benjamin January-New Orleans-1830s) – NRHambly, Barbara – 5th in seriesBantam, 2002, US Paperback – ISBN: 0553581651First Sentence: “…nigger,” muttered a man’s voice, hoarse in the dark of the alley but very clear.Benjamin January is leaving the American Theatre, after...
Dead Water (2005)
I have enjoyed Hambly’s books since reading her vampire work Those that Hunt the Night years ago, and picked this up because I enjoy Civil War period books. I was not disappointed. This book kept my attention from the very first page. The cast of characters was so well drawn they seemed like real...
A Free Man of Color (1998)
tA Free Man of Color is the first book in the Benjamin January series by Barbara Hambly, and it is awesome. It’s the story of Benjamin January, a middle-aged black musician and surgeon who has just returned to New Orleans, after spending most of his adult life in Paris, after the death of his bea...