Cold Bayou: A historical mystery set in New Orleans: 16 (A Benjamin January Mystery) - Softcover

Hambly, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847519245 ISBN 13: 9781847519245

Publisher: Severn House, 2019

Synopsis

"Don't go to Cold Bayou, brother ... Nuthin' good waiting for you there." New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner Veryl St-Chinian. All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old, profoundly infatuated Uncle Veryl to an 18-year-old Irish tavern-slut spells potential disaster for everyone in the inter-married Viellard and St-Chinian clans. But the old man is determined to marry Miss Ellie Trask, and nothing will stand in his way. On the isolated plantation of Cold Bayou where the ceremony is to take place, tension is rife even before the body is discovered in the woods behind the dower house, its throat cut. A yet more disturbing turn of events sees January himself accused of the crime...

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Hambly, though a native of Southern California, lived in New Orleans for many years while married to the late science fiction writer George Alec Effinger. Hambly holds a degree in medieval history from the University of California and has written novels in numerous genres.

About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1847519245
• ISBN 13: 9781847519245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258