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Barbara Hambly
Fifteen years ago, musician sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January survived a ghost-hunting trip to a haunted house . but one of his party did not. Who -…
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Welcome to Hollywood of the 1920s: a world filled with glamour, fake names . . . and the occasional felony!
July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and…
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When James Asher and his wife Lydia’s baby daughter is kidnapped by the Master Vampire of London, there’s no guarantee that they’ll ever see their child again. Nor that they’ll…
A RETURN TO THE REALM OF DARWATH…
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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…
In a latest installment of a series set in turbulent nineteenth-century New Orleans, free man of color Benjamin January finds himself on a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable…
Benjamin January’s search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers.
War is descending on the world, and James Asher is called to Paris. Why, his wife Lydia has no idea. But when James is found unconscious in the cemetery of…
In this dazzling sequel to Dragonsbane and Dragonshadow , Lord John Aversin battles the beautiful and evil demon queen Aohila. He must fight his way through unimaginable horrors in the…
Neither living nor dead, the revenants are mindless and unstoppable in the carnage of the First World War. Lydia Asher learns that someone controls and creates revenants for use as…
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…
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…
May, 1924. When renowned film director Ernest Zapolya calls Emma Blackstone - companion to Hollywood movie star Kitty Flint - and demands to see Kitty at once, Emma's not surprised…
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…
When a witness claims that Huseyin Pasha hurled the dead bodies of his concubines out of a window, everyone is readt to believe him a murderer. Only Benjamin January, who…
hen the body of a mysterious Englishman is found floating in New Orleans’ New Basin Canal, Benjamin January uncovers a link to another unsolved murder in Paris nine years before…
New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city’s wealthy are no longer required, he ends up agreeing to…
The Yellow City is in crisis. The wells are running dry, and the Sun Mages have been unable to call the rains. Frustrated Mages across the land can no longer…
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…
Following the murder of a chief ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railroad - the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom - Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the…
When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January’s wife - claims to have found the whereabouts of the family’s lost treasure, January refuses to help look for it…
When the body of a mysterious Englishman is found floating in New Orleans’ New Basin Canal, Benjamin January uncovers a link to another unsolved murder in Paris nine years before…
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…
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…
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…
May, 1924. When renowned film director Ernest Zapolya calls Emma Blackstone - companion to Hollywood movie star Kitty Flint - and demands to see Kitty at once, Emma’s not surprised…
When Martha Dandridge Custis marries her second husband, George, she never suspects that the soft-spoken Virginia planter is destined to command the founding of a nation–or that she is to…
A young woman rises from the streets to battle a sinister evil in this magical fantasy adventure by the bestselling author of the Darwath series. Something is amiss with the…
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In this sequel to Dragonsbane, demons have kidnapped the 12-year-old mageborn son of Lord John Aversin, the dragon slayer, and Jenny Waynest. John enlists the help of the eldest and…
