Sold Down the River

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 …

When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on h...