Dark & Twisty

Benjamin January Series

21 primary works • 26 total works
Ben January, a surgeon and music teacher, in 1830s New Orleans, Louisiana:

Book 1

A Free Man of Color
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3.98 · 3622 Ratings · 416 Reviews · published 1997 · 27 editions
A lush and haunting novel of a city steeped in dec…

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    Book 2

    Fever Season
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    4.11     · 1778 Ratings · 147 Reviews · published 1998 · 13 editions
    The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and…

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    Book 3

    Graveyard Dust
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    4.11     · 1409 Ratings · 98 Reviews · published 1999 · 13 editions
    Bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of …

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    Book 4

    Sold Down the River
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    4.22     · 1320 Ratings · 85 Reviews · published 2000 · 13 editions
    Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New…

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    Book 5

    Die Upon a Kiss
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    4.00     · 1033 Ratings · 74 Reviews · published 2001 · 14 editions
    In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are…

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    Book 6

    Wet Grave
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    4.17     · 975 Ratings · 74 Reviews · published 2002 · 19 editions
    In such stunning novels of crime and character as …

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    Book 7

    Days of the Dead
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    3.99     · 834 Ratings · 63 Reviews · published 2003 · 19 editions
    The New York Times hails Barbara Hambly’s novels f…

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    Book 8

    Dead Water
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    4.16     · 812 Ratings · 56 Reviews · published 2004 · 14 editions
    Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed…

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    Book 9

    Dead and Buried
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    4.19     · 709 Ratings · 87 Reviews · published 2010 · 13 editions
    New Orleans, 1836. When free black musician and su…

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    Book 10

    The Shirt on His Back
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    4.16     · 612 Ratings · 83 Reviews · published 2011 · 12 editions

    The new 'Benjamin January' novel from the best-sel…

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    Book 11

    Ran Away
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    4.12     · 599 Ratings · 75 Reviews · published 2011 · 20 editions
    RAN AWAY. So began a score of advertisements every…

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    Book 12

    Good Man Friday
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    4.14     · 673 Ratings · 120 Reviews · published 2013 · 20 editions
    Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes …

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    Book 13

    Crimson Angel
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    4.15     · 462 Ratings · 72 Reviews · published 2014 · 10 editions
    When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of…

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    Book 14

    Drinking Gourd
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    4.21     · 428 Ratings · 62 Reviews · published 2016 · 8 editions
    Benjamin January must uncover a killer to protect …

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    Book 15

    Murder in July
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    4.23     · 350 Ratings · 52 Reviews · published 2017 · 5 editions
    Benjamin January investigates the murder of a m…

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    Book 16

    Cold Bayou
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    4.16     · 306 Ratings · 49 Reviews · published 2018 · 5 editions
    Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someo…

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    Book 17

    Lady of Perdition
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    4.22     · 269 Ratings · 35 Reviews · published 2019 · 5 editions
    Benjamin January heads to the "Slaveholders' Repub…

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    Book 18

    The House of the Patriarch
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    4.28     · 281 Ratings · 45 Reviews · published 2020 · 10 editions
    No one can talk to the dead . . . can they? Fre…

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    Book 19

    Death and Hard Cider
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    4.33     · 271 Ratings · 35 Reviews · published 2022 · 5 editions
    Musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin…

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    Book 20

    The Nubian’s Curse
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    4.19     · 205 Ratings · 29 Reviews · published 2024 · 8 editions
    A cursed statue . . . A haunted house . . . A seem…

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    Book 21

    Murder in the Trembling Lands
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    4.38     · 113 Ratings · 16 Reviews · 9 editions
    Masked balls, duels and murder: musician, sleuth a…

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    Libre
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    4.00     · 64 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2015 · 2 editions
    A short story about free man of color Benjamin Jan…

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    There Shall Your Heart Be Also
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    4.15     · 66 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2015 · 2 editions
    Short story of 5,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Ben…

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    A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven
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    4.12     · 57 Ratings · published 2015 · 2 editions
    A short story of 8,699 words, in the Benjamin Janu…

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    Hagar
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    4.24     · 86 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2015 · 2 editions
    A novelette of 13,000 words in the Benjamin Januar…

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    Death on the Moon
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    4.24     · 55 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 2 editions
    A novelette of 12,000 words in the Benjamin Januar…

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