Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, Book 16)

Hambly, Barbara

ISBN 10: 072788798X / ISBN 13: 9780727887986

Published by Severn House, Surrey, UK, 2018

About this Item

1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the dust jacket is sharp and in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. When this book arrives at your door youll feel good, like Ted Williams, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame, hittin .406 in 1941 - HOME RUN!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, Book 16)
• Publisher: Severn House, Surrey, UK
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 072788798X
• ISBN 13: 9780727887986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride . The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery.

"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 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.