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Murder in July

door Barbara Hambly

Reeksen: Benjamin January (15)

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"When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal, Benjamin turns him down immediately. As a free man of colour in New Orleans in the sweltering July of 1839, he knows this is not something he should get mixed up in. But when clues to the dead man's identity link the death to another murder, in another July in January's past, he is reluctantly drawn into the investigation. Nine years ago in Paris he failed to catch a killer-- with tragic consequences. Now in New Orleans he must unravel the earlier murder, the one that took place during the great revolt against the Bourbon kings, to solve the second killing. At stake is not merely a hundred dollars, but hidden treasure, the fate of an innocent woman-- and the lives of January's wife, son and unborn child" -- Dust jacket flap.… (meer)

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Murder in July is well plotted, the two murder mysteries are tightly woven together and there's the remarkable (for the genre) additional fact that the similar and related mystery from a decade earlier was never solved. Bonus: there's some more Hannibal Sefton back story revealed and we see a lot of Ayasha. So far so good, and I'd give it a solid 4 stars except that it badly, achingly, needed maps of both New Orleans and Paris, as well as some kind of genealogical chart of the Parisians. With everybody involved in that part of the story having a prename, a surname, and a title of nobility, I really laboured in confusion for most of the novel. (

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muumi | Feb 21, 2022 |

Not for me. I just couldn't get into the story, whether it is because this is number 15 in the series or not I am unsure.
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Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |

This is the latest in Hably's Freeman of Color mystery series. This time Benjamin January is enlisted to help solve what seems to be the murder of an Englishman whose body was found floating in the New Basin Canal. Benjamin wants to turn him down, but in 1839 money is still tight owing to a financial depression and the fact that musician jobs (his normal form of employment) are scarce in the summertime when most of the New Orleans elite leave town to avoid the fevers that are endemic in the hot season. So he agrees.

As he begins to investigate he finds that there are many similarities with another murder investigation he was involved in in Paris nine years previously, and the story alternated between Paris in 1930 and New Orleans in 1839. The first murder must be solved in order to solve the second.

As usual with Hambly's books, this one is well researched and full of atmosphere. A most enjoyable read. (

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"When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal, Benjamin turns him down immediately. As a free man of colour in New Orleans in the sweltering July of 1839, he knows this is not something he should get mixed up in. But when clues to the dead man's identity link the death to another murder, in another July in January's past, he is reluctantly drawn into the investigation. Nine years ago in Paris he failed to catch a killer-- with tragic consequences. Now in New Orleans he must unravel the earlier murder, the one that took place during the great revolt against the Bourbon kings, to solve the second killing. At stake is not merely a hundred dollars, but hidden treasure, the fate of an innocent woman-- and the lives of January's wife, son and unborn child" -- Dust jacket flap.

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