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Barbara Hambly
Benjamin January has reason to regret agreeing to perform at the wedding of wealthy landowner Veryl St-Chinian to an Irish barmaid fifty years his junior. On the isolated plantation of…
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Entering Texas, the Slaveholders’ Republic , in 1840 as a black man is a risky business. They are putting their life at risk, which is exactly what Benjamin January needs…
After six months in Hollywood, Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, movie-star Kitty Flint. So when Kitty’s accused of murder, Emma’s certain she’s been framed. But who…
A whirlwind fantasy classic set in the richest world imaginable, with unforgettable characters and the highest stakes - The Time of the Dark is the first book in Barbara Hambly’s…
A whirlwind fantasy classic set in the richest world imaginable, with unforgettable characters and the highest stakes - The Walls of Air is the second book in Barbara Hambly’s epic…
A whirlwind fantasy classic set in the richest world imaginable, with unforgettable characters and the highest stakes - The Armies of Daylight is the third and final book in Barbara…
New Orleans, 1840. Benjamin January has little use for politicians, but when a giant rally is planned to stir up support for the Whig presidential candidate, he finds himself intrigued…
Ten years after Abraham Lincoln’s death, the president’s widow is incarcerated in an insane asylum by her only surviving son. It is from this little-known episode that Hambly spins her…
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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…
As impresario Lorenzo Belaggio brings a controversial operatic version of Othello to 1835 New Orleans, he is attacked outside the theater and is saved by free man Benjamin January, who…
Deactivated for years and drifting aimlessly through space, an old Imperial weapon, a mammoth dreadnought governed by an artificial intelligence, reawakens and sets out on its deadly mission, unless Luke…
Dragonshadow is book two in the breath-taking The Winterlands - an epic, classic fantasy quartet full of whirlwind adventure, magic and dragons.
Knight of the Demon Queen is the third book in Barbara Hambly’s fantasy tour de force, The Winterlands - an epic, classic quartet full of high stakes, magic and dragons.
When Eve Russell vanishes into thin air, her frantic parents call on free man of color Benjamin January for help. Did the teenager run away - or was she kidnapped…
A rich and breath-taking fantasy classic full of whirlwind adventure, magic and dragons - Dragonsbane is the first book in Barbara Hambly’s landmark epic quartet, The Winterlands.
New Orleans 1836: When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends a friend’s funeral an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin - only to reveal the…
Set on the planet Renat Chorios, this novel finds Leia in the hands of the evil warlord Sati Draconis. Meanwhile, Luke is searching for his lost love, and the planet…
March, 1917. Industrialist Spenser Cochran has drugged and enslaved a vampire, Don Simon Ysidro, aboard a luxury ship to the US. Horrified, Dr Lydia Asher joins the voyage intending to…
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…
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…
In 1835, Benjamin January and his new bride, Rose Vitrac, head to Mexico City to aid Hannibal Sefton, accused of poisoning the son of a prominent landowner. As Mexico’s holy…
Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother’s murder and Benjamin January needs money after his bank crashes. In the depths of the Rocky Mountains they are found at the…
Benjamin January, a free Black man, physician, and musician in the American South in the antebellum years of the 1830s, ends up far away from New Orleans caught up in…
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…
The third mystery in the series featuring Benjamin January, a free man of color. New Orleans, 1834: Benjamin’s efforts to clear his sister of murder charges take him from the…
When a witness claims that Huseyin Pasha hurled the dead bodies of his concubines out of a window, everyone is ready to believe him a murderer. Only Benjamin January, who…