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Lädt ... Days of the Deadvon Barbara Hambly
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is another in the Benjamin January series - a series I like a lot. January and his new wife go to Mexico where his friend, Hannibal, had run off to with an Opera singer(Counsela) he met in the last book. Hannibal is being held at Consela's father's (Don Prospero) home and is accused of killing Prospero's son recently home from Germany and wanting to make big changes, commit Prospero to an asylum. Easy to understand since Prospero moves back and forth between reality and the past. Hannibal is accused of poisoning the son and smuggles a letter out to his friend, January, who comes with his new wife Rose. The evidence all points to Hannibal and January must sort through a tangled family history in a time when Santa Ana is preparing to attack those pesky Texians demanding freedom from Mexico at the Alamo. Santa Ana is a friend of Prospero who pays Ana's debts. This presents Ana as a very colorful character who doesn't hesitate to toss his army into situations where they will die and who doesn't hesitate to execute his enemies. As the holy day of Days of the Dead approaches, January and Rose, must figure out what is really happening. He is then accused of killing Prospero's chef by the killer who fears January is getting close to the truth. Hambly's historical crime series set in the various coloured subcultures of 1830s New Orleans gives us a fascinating and painless dose of social history. I enjoy this series more for the characters and colour than for the detail of the actual mystery being solved. This one has our hero Benjamin January - a free black man, trained in both medicine and music - away on a trip to Mexico with his new wife. There's lots of new local colour - Aztec ruins, Day of the Dead celebrations, and much more. January's friend Hannibal is accused of poisoning a wealthy landowner's son. Of course Hannibal didn't do it - or did he? And even if January can solve the case, how can the local upper crust be made to believe him? Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The New York Times hails Barbara Hambly's novels featuring Benjamin January as "masterly," "ravishing," and "haunting." The Chicago Tribune crowns them "dazzling...January is a wonderfully rich and complex character." Now the bestselling author returns with a story that leads January from the dangerously sensual milieu of New Orleans into a world seething with superstition and dark spirits, where one man's freedom turns on a case of murder and blood vengeance. Days of the Dead Mexico City in the autumn of 1835 is a lawless place, teeming with bandits and beggars. But an urgent letter from a desperate friend draws Benjamin January and his new bride Rose from New Orleans to this newly free province. Here they pray they'll find Hannibal Sefton alive--and not hanging from the end of a rope.Sefton stands accused of murdering the only son of prominent landowner Don Prospero de Castellon. But when Benjamin and Rose arrive at Hacienda Mictlán, they encounter a murky tangle of family relations, and more than one suspect in young Fernando's murder. While the evidence against Hannibal is damning, Benjamin is certain that his consumptive, peace-loving fellow musician isn't capable of murder. Their only allies are the dead boy's half sister, who happens to be Hannibal's latest inamorata, and the mentally unstable Castellon himself, who awaits Mexico's holy Days of the Dead, when he believes his slain son will himself reveal the identity of his killer.The search for the truth will lead Benjamin and Rose down a path that winds from the mazes of the capital's back streets and barrios to the legendary pyramids of Mictlán and, finally, to a place where spirits walk and the dead cry out for justice. But before they can lay to rest the ghosts of the past, Benjamin and Rose will have to stop a flesh-and-blood murderer who's determined to escape the day of reckoning and add Benjamin and Rose to the swelling ranks of the dead. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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In contrast to her deep research into Voudon and her sympathetic treatment of it, Hambly seems to have little sympathy for Mexican Catholicism and has provided no historical notes on the topic. The penances of the fervent and the details of convent life seem to be straight from the pen of Maria Monk. Even the name of the convent most often mentioned is very odd and seems inauthentic. I look forward to the next book in the series, hoping to return to Louisiana and a milieu that the author enjoys more. ( )