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Graveyard Dust (1999)

di Barbara Hambly

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Serie: Benjamin January (3)

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:Bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color and Fever Season established Benjamin January as one of mystery's 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. John's Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin Januaryâ??Creole physician and music teacherâ??is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympeâ??mystical and rebelliousâ??is 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 Olympe's lifeâ??and his ownâ??Benjamin 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 night's warm breeze as easy as graveyard dust....
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Not my favorite of the series so far, I think it was simply that I wanted more of Rose. Good book. ( )
  BrielM | Mar 1, 2022 |
Barbara Hambly's research for this book is impressive. ( )
  muumi | Apr 26, 2021 |
4.5 stars ( )
  the_lirazel | Apr 6, 2020 |
I appreciated Ms. Hambly's sensitive treatment of voodoo, which parallels my own experience of it in Kumasi, Ghana in the late 70s. She did have an error on the Biblical side; it wasn't Gideon, but Joshua, who made the sun stand still. (p.243)
I have my favorite bits - the protagonist's slow healing from grief, for one, but pain is described just as well, such as "Or was she still treating her son with frozen politeness tempered by martyered courage?" (p.296)
Ms. Hambly says things I want to believe - "Forgiveness is stronger than the graveyard dust of the past" (p.303) One of the reasons I read novels is to see this demonstrated, because it's so hard to believe.

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  MaryHeleneMele | May 6, 2019 |
This is No. 3 in Hambly's Benjamin January series. Unfortunately, the shortcomings I noted in the first two books continue here, and I just couldn't keep going this time. The setting really appeals to me, and January is an interesting character. But I find Hambly's style monotonous; secondary characters don't come to life and I lose track of who's who because they mostly get talked about, not seen in action; again I was finding her emphasis on the obvious heavy-handed and repetitive. Free people of color in 19th century New Orleans had as much reason to fear for their safety as slaves, or former slaves, yeah I get it---even when she shows the reader that this is true, she finds it necessary for her characters to tell us what we just saw. I couldn't make myself care who killed Isaak (if he's even dead, which I doubt) and I was fairly sure that somehow January would get his sister cleared of the charge, but I wasn't too curious about how....so I quit about 150 pages in. This series should be much better than it is, and it makes me sad. Despite my interest in the multi-leveled milieu of the time and place, which carried me through A Free Man of Color, I barely made it to the end of Fever Season, and could not finish Graveyard Dust. It just isn't enough of a factor to keep me reading these rather tedious books.
  laytonwoman3rd | Nov 30, 2017 |
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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Hambly, Barbaraautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Butler, RonNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Seder, JasonImmagine di copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato

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Rossini's "Di tanti palpiti" unspooling like golden ribbon from the ballroom's open windows.
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Benjamin January flexed his aching shoulders and thought, Rain coming.
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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:Bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color and Fever Season established Benjamin January as one of mystery's 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. John's Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin Januaryâ??Creole physician and music teacherâ??is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympeâ??mystical and rebelliousâ??is 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 Olympe's lifeâ??and his ownâ??Benjamin 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 night's warm breeze as easy as graveyard dust....
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