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Murder in July
Barbara Hambly
Benjamin January investigates the murder of a mysterious Englishman in this absorbing New Orleans-set mystery.
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. Now he must unravel the earlier murder in order to solve this second killing. At stake are the lives of his wife, son and unborn child.
UK edition
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Publication Date: 31 Aug 2017
ISBN: 9780727887405
Price: £20.99
Dimensions: 222 x 141
Extent: 256 pages
US edition
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Publication Date: 1 Dec 2017
ISBN: 9780727887405
Price: $28.99
Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.25
Extent: 256 pages
House of the Patriarch
No one can talk to the dead . . . can they? Free man of color Benjamin January gets caught up in a strange, spiritual world that might lead to his own demise, as he hunts for a missing teenager in this gripping, atmospheric historical mystery.
1840. 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? The answer lies in distant New York, a hotbed of new religions, of human circuses ... and of dangerous slave traders. If January uncovers the truth, will he ever get home to tell it?
Lady of Perdition
Benjamin January heads to the "Slaveholders' Republic" of Texas to locate a kidnapped girl and help a woman who saved him from the noose.
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 to do when he is tasked with locating a kidnapped girl. During his search he is saved from the noose by the wife of a wealthy ranch owner, who soon needs January's help herself.
Prisoner of Midnight
Vampire Don Simon Ysido has been captured and held aboard a ship heading to the US to act as a slave, and Dr Lydia Asher must stop it . . . at any cost.
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 stop Cochran's chemical thrall, but evidence mounts that another vampire is hiding on board. Can Lydia solve both cases and rescue her friend before the ship docks?
Cold Bayou
Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride ... The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery.
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 Cold Bayou where the ceremony is to take place, a body is discovered in the woods behind the dower house - and January himself is accused of the crime.
Pale Guardian
During the carnage of World War One, James Asher joins forces with the vampires of Europe to counter an even deadlier threat.
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 soldiers. Former spy James Asher discovers revenants are in England. Since revenants devour vampires, they join forces with the Ashers to find the source of the threat.
Drinking Gourd
Benjamin January must uncover a killer to protect a secret . . .
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 entire Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of the crime. It's up to Benjamin January to step in and find the true killer - before their covers are blown.
Darkness on His Bones
Simon. Something frightful has happened to Jamie. Please come . . .
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 the Church of St. Clare with multiple puncture-wounds in his throat and arms, there is only one person Lydia can call on for help: their old friend and adversary, the vampire Don Simon Ysidro.
Crimson Angel
Benjamin January is forced to travel to Haiti to seek his family's lost treasure, in order to save everything he holds dear.
1838. 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. For the treasure lies in Haiti, a place full of dangers. But others are after the treasure - and they believe January and his family stand in their way...
The Kindred of Darkness
When James Asher's daughter is kidnapped by a Master Vampire, the stakes could not be higher.
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 survive the experience themselves - even with the vampire Don Simon Ysidro on their side.
Good Man Friday
Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers.
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 accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife, Chloë, on a mission to Washington to find a missing friend. Plunged into a murky world, it soon becomes clear that while it is very possible the Viellards' friend is dead, his enemies are very much alive - and ready to kill anyone who gets in their way.
Magistrates of Hell
James Asher finds himself once more in alliance with vampire Don Simon Ysidro, as their investigations takes them to far-off Peking . . .
October, 1912. James Asher, his wife Lydia, and the old occultist and vampire-hunter Dr Solomon Karlebach have journeyed to the new-born Republic of China to investigate the rumour that the mindless Undead - the Others that even the vampires fear - have begun to multiply in the caverns of the hills west of Peking. Alongside his old vampire partner, Don Simon Ysidro, Asher embarks on a sinister hunt, while somewhere in the city's cold gray labyrinth lurk the Peking vampires, known as the Magistrates of Hell - with an agenda of their own . . .
Ran Away
A Benjamin January novel from the best-selling author.
RAN AWAY - So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who’d fled their masters. But the Turk, Hüseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a witness proclaimed he’d seen the "devilish infidel" hurl their dead bodies out of a window, everyone was willing to believe him the murderer. Only Benjamin January, who knows the Turk of old, is willing to seek for the true culprit, endangering his own life in the process . . .
Blood Maidens
A 'James Asher' vampire novel from the best-selling author.
It's 1911. War is coming, and according to one of the vampires of St. Petersburg, the Kaiser is trying to recruit vampires. James Asher, Oxford don and formerly on His Majesty's Secret Service, is forced to team up again with his vampire partner Don Simon Ysidro for a journey to the subarctic Russian capital. Are they on the trail of a rogue vampire with a plan to achieve the power to walk in daylight? Asher wonders. Or is Ysidro's real agenda to seek the woman he once loved? . . .
The Shirt on His Back
A 'Benjamin January' novel about vengeance and money from the best-selling author.
Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother's murder and Benjamin January is seeking money after his bank crashes. Far beyond the frontier, in the depths of the Rocky Mountains, both are to be found at the great Rendezvous of the Mountain Men: a month-long orgy of cheap booze, shooting-matches, tall tales and cut-throat trading. But at the rendezvous, the discovery of a corpse opens the door to hints of a greater plot, of madness and wholesale murder . . .
Dead and Buried
A 'Benjamin January' novel from the best-selling author.
New Orleans, 1836. When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Just one person recognises the corpse of the white man: Hannibal Sefton, fiddle-player and one of January's closest friends. But he seems unwilling to talk about his connection to the dead man . . .