
Crimson Angel
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Severn House Publishers · Ebook · December 1, 2014
Benjamin January is forced to travel to Haiti to seek his family’s lost treasure, in order to save everything he holds dear When Jefferson Vitrack – the white half-brother of Benjamin January’s wife - turns up on January’s doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family’s lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it.
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- Who it’s for
- A tense search for buried gold brings historical upheaval and murder into the same frame.
- Genres
- Historical Mystery, Black Mystery, Black Historical Fiction
- Published
- Severn House Publishers, December 1, 2014
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Benjamin January is forced to travel to Haiti to seek his family’s lost treasure, in order to save everything he holds dear When Jefferson Vitrack – the white half-brother of Benjamin January’s wife - turns up on January’s doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family’s lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it.
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For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France’s most profitable colony – until the blood-chilling repression practiced there by the whites upon their slaves triggered a savage rebellion. The world’s only Black Republic still looks with murderous mistrust upon any strangers who might set foot there, and January is in no hurry to go. But when Vitrack is murdered, and attempts are made on January’s wife and himself, he understands that he has no choice. He must seek the treasure himself, to draw the unknown killers into the open, a bloody trail that leads first to Cuba, then to Haiti, and finally to the secret that lies buried with the accursed gold.
History Under Suspicion
A tense search for buried gold brings historical upheaval and murder into the same frame.
Come here for
- A historical mystery with Haiti’s fraught past at its center
- A trail of danger from Cuba to Haiti
Expect
- Benjamin January’s reluctant pursuit of a family treasure
- A mystery shaped by suspicion, violence, and the legacy of slavery
Where it sits
| Black Mystery | 58% |
|---|---|
| Historical Mystery | 53% |
| Black Historical Fiction | 47% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Mystery
- Black Historical Fiction
- Black Mystery
- Authors
- Barbara Hambly
- Publisher
- Severn House Publishers
- Published
- December 1, 2014
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Historical Mystery