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Graveyard Dust

The Benjamin January Mysteries, Book 3

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Graveyard Dust

By: Barbara Hambly
Narrated by: Ron Butler
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Best-selling author Barbara Hambly’s A Free Man of Color and Fever Season established Benjamin January as one of mystery’s most exciting heroes. Now he returns in a powerful new novel, a sensual mosaic of old New Orleans, where cultures clash and murder can hover around every darkened corner.

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. For in the heavy darkness of New Orleans, the truth is what you make it, and justice can disappear with the night’s warm breeze as easy as graveyard dust.

©1999 Barbara Hambly (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Crime New Orleans Murder
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Loved it, as I had the previous two books, cleverly crafted and read beautifully by Ron Butler.

Graveyard dust.

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I did not enjoy this one as much as I did the previous two, but having said that a good book, I would recommend.

Another great read

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I really enjoyed the first two novels, but for some reason found this one hard to follow. I frequently found myself getting confused as who the characters were.

Not as good as the previous two books in the series

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