Cold Bayou
Severn House Publishers · Paperback · August 1, 2019
Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride … The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery. “Don’t go to Cold Bayou, brother … Nuthin’ good waiting for you there.” New Orleans, 1839.
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- Who it’s for
- A tense historical mystery where a wedding, a family feud, and murder collide.
- Genres
- Historical Mystery, Black Mystery, Black Historical Fiction
- Published
- Severn House Publishers, August 1, 2019
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Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride … The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery. “Don’t go to Cold Bayou, brother … Nuthin’ good waiting for you there.” New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner Veryl St-Chinian.
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All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old, profoundly infatuated Uncle Veryl to an 18-year-old Irish tavern-slut spells potential disaster for everyone in the inter-married Viellard and St-Chinian clans. But the old man is determined to marry Miss Ellie Trask, and nothing will stand in his way. On the isolated plantation of Cold Bayou where the ceremony is to take place, tension is rife even before the body is discovered in the woods behind the dower house, its throat cut. A yet more disturbing turn of events sees January himself accused of the crime…
A Wedding in Trouble
A tense historical mystery where a wedding, a family feud, and murder collide.
Come here for
- A 1839 New Orleans mystery with a family wedding gone badly awry
- Benjamin January caught between a murder and an accusation
Expect
- An isolated plantation and a tangled web of family tensions
- Benjamin January under suspicion after a body is found
Where it sits
| Historical Mystery | 80% |
|---|---|
| Black Mystery | 34% |
| Black Historical Fiction | 32% |
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
- August 1, 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Historical Mystery