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Barbara Hambly
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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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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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…
Benjamin January’s search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers.
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…
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…
A RETURN TO THE REALM OF DARWATH…
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…
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…
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When the boy prince of Dare is kidnapped–a pawn in the twisted plot of an evil conqueror to rule the world–only one man holds hope of saving him. Banished by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When the Faubourg Treme Free Colored Militia and Burial Society sets out to bury one of its members in the summer of 1836, no one expects the accident that reveals…
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…
October, 1912. James Asher, his wife Lydia, and the occultist and vampire-hunter Dr Solomon Karlebach have journeyed to the new-born Republic of China to investigate the rumour that the mindless…
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…
Benjamin January at the Rendezvous of the Mountain Men –Cover.
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…
Faced with an attempt by the land chiefs to oust the King, and with the efforts of her own family to re-enslave her, Raeshaldis must play a deadly guessing game…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…