Graveyard Dust (Benjamin January, Book 3)

Bestselling author Barbara Hamblys A Free Man of Color and Fever Season established Benjamin January as one of mysterys most exciting heroes. Now he returns in a powerful new novel a sensual mosaic of old New Orleans where cultures clash and murder can hover around every darkened corner.... It is St. Johns Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin JanuaryCreole physician and music teacheris shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympemystical and rebelliousis a woman of color whose chance for justice is slim. As Benjamin probes the allegation he is targeted by a new threat: graveyard dust sprinkled at his door whispering of a voodoo death curse. Now to save Olympes lifeand his ownBenjamin knows he must glean information wherever he can find it. For in the heavy darkness of New Orleans the truth is what you make it and justice can disappear with the nights warm breeze as easy as graveyard dust....