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Sold Down the River
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly’s haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent plantation world darker than anything in the city....
When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer.
Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his musician’s hands bleed, Benjamin must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer - or find himself sold down the river.
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- Mary A.
- 30-10-2022
Amazing!
An absolutely magnificent novel! It was harrowing, full of suspense and mystery, but wasn’t as bleak as it sounds, as Ben found kindness and goodness on the plantation as well as great suffering.
The mystery was well drawn, and I didn’t see it coming, but probably should have.
Ben’s attempts to come to terms with his past as a slave was particularly well done and the conversation with Mohammad about his father made me cry.
A wonderful book.
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