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    Dead and Buried

    By Barbara Hambly

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    The new '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 . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2011
    ISBN9781780100401
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    Barbara Hambly

    Barbara Hambly was born in San Diego. Her interest in fantasy began with reading The Wizard of Oz at an early age and has continued ever since. She attended the University of California, Riverside, specialising in medieval history and then spent a year at the University at Bordeaux in Southern France as a teaching and research assistant. She now lives in Los Angeles.

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    • 4/5
      I've always liked this series a lot, but apparently got out of the habit of periodically checking for new ones, because now there are like twelve or some crazy number, and I was a bit behind.The broad strokes of the series are that you have this guy who is a free person of color in New Orleans at the beginning of the 19th century, so that is the part that brings in a lot of interesting social and historical information, and he solves murders, in a fairly straightforward yet pleasant genre murder mystery way. The first few books felt very realistic, well, as realistic as books about someone who solves murders in his spare time are likely to be, in that all the situations felt very reasonable, like you could believe that one person would be positioned to experience these things.At some point, it got a little Forrest Gump-y, in that somehow this guy is now encountering every possible confluence of political events that result in murders, like all the time. But by then, I had bought into this series and that was fine, really. For light-ish reading, I have no problem with that. What happens in this one? Visiting Irish aristocrats get caught up in a murder in New Orleans (duh).
    • 4/5
      It's been far
      too long since DEAD WATER, but here is a new book (and a new
      publisher) for Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January.

      It's late summer (that is, about now) in New Orleans in 1836. January,
      a free man of color, trained as a physician in Paris but has been
      making his living as a musician since returning to New Orleans. As the
      story opens, he's playing in the funeral band for a fellow musician.
      Also playing is fiddler Hannibal Sefton, the only white man in New
      Orleans who treats January as an equal; Sefton is an Anglo-Irish
      alcoholic and opium addict. As the coffin is being borne to the tomb,
      one of the pallbearers, too drunk and too short to carry his load
      reliably, stumbles -- the coffin breaks open -- and out tumbles the
      corpse of a white man. Sefton recognizes the corpse and is both
      surprised and grief-stricken.

      Mystery piles upon mystery. Who killed Patrick Derryhick and switched
      the corpses? Why were a group of upper-class Anglo-Irishmen, including
      a young Viscount, in New Orleans during fever season, when all
      upper-class whites had fled to cooler and healthier homes? Questions
      of identity come up again and again. The plot is entirely believable,
      but full of twists, turns, and terror, especially when January must
      travel alone upriver to further his investigations.

      Barbara Hambly writes fine historical fiction, seamlessly imparting
      necessary information about a place and time usually dismissed quickly
      as "ante-bellum" in our high school history classes. We see how the
      Louisiana Purchase, even decades on, affects white, mixed-race, and
      black people in Louisiana and the nearby areas.

      Hambly shares with Kris Nelscott and Susan Straight an uncanny ability
      to put the reader inside the head and heart of a character of a
      different race and gender from herself. By now, I feel I know Benjamin
      January and can feel at least something of what it was like to be him.

      Hambly's love for New Orleans and Louisiana comes out not only in her
      characters, but in her description of the places, the sights, sounds,
      and smells. At one moment she can turn your stomach by evoking the
      stench of the Calaboso (jail); at another you can almost taste the
      fresh beignets and coffee at a local cafe.

      This is one series that I would urge reading from the beginning (A
      FREE MAN OF COLOR), although each book can stand on its own. There are
      revelations about one character in DEAD AND BURIED which might affect
      your appreciation of the earlier books if you were to read this one
      first. But wherever you start, don't miss this excellent series. Need
      I say -- highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      I was so happy to get reacquainted with Benjamin January and 19th-century New Orleans. It's always fascinating to learn about the shifting rules of society among the different groups of people who lived there whether influenced by French, Spanish, Caribbean, African, or American government and mores. Barbara Hambly always does her research and manages to bring the 1830s to life in full-color. Plus, we get to learn a little more about mysterious Hannibal's history this time.
    • 5/5
      After a dry spell of several years, Barbara Hambly has published two new Benjamin January mysteries in the past two years. I read this one out of sequence, reading the most recent book, The Shirt on His Back, first & finding it a disappointment. With Dead and Buried however, Ms. Hambly is back in true form with a tour du force of a story combining a murder, long buried family secrets and misogyny in pre-Civil War New Orleans with the series fans finally finding out who Hannibal Sefton really is at the end of the book as a special lagniappe for her dedicated readers.I only hope that this series goes on and on.
    • 5/5
      Man it's been a long time since I read a Benjamin January mystery, and I have missed him. I absolutely love this series, and this book is a winner too. Ms. Hambly brings her era live with this series. This book is set in New Orleans in the year 1836. This is a story of old family secrets, unrequited love and murder and betrayal. The lengths that people would go to keep these family secrets up to and including murder never cease to amaze me. I can't imagine what it was like to live in this society where class and colour were so all important. But Ms. Hambly's books give me a good idea of what it was like. And through it all we have wonderful Benjamin January trying to right old wrongs and protect his family and friends. The plotting is detailed and intricate, the characterizations so "spot-on" that I firmly believe that Benjamin January actually did live in the deep south during these years. I hope we don't have to wait quite so long for another book in this totally wonderful series. I for one can't wait to read more.
    • 4/5
      i was getting a little tired of some formulaic elements in the last couple of Benjamin January books, but this has some amazing twists. I think it is as good as the first one in the series.
    • 5/5
      Musician Benjamin January is attending the funeral of a friend when a mishap at the graveside sends the coffin tumbling, and it breaks open to reveal the body of a complete stranger. Once again, Benjamin must solve the mystery and navigate his way through the complex, frequently dangerous world of 1830's New Orleans, with its strict hierarchies of caste and its lively politics.if you enjoy well-written mysteries with an atmospheric setting and complex characterisation, then Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January books are highly recommended. This is the ninth book in the series. The series starts with 'A free man of color'.