Wet Grave (Benjamin January #6 - Barbara Hambly
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Its 1835 and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGrosonce a corsairs jeweled mistress, now a raddled hagis found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleanss most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at a demimonde banquet years ago., Who would want to kill this woman nowHessy, they said, would turn a trick for a bottle of rumhad some quarrelsome customer decided to do away with her? Or could it be one of the sexual predators who roamed the dark and seedy streets? Oras Benjamin comes to suspectwas her killer someone she knew, someone whose careful search of her shack suggests a cold-blooded crime? Someone whose boot left a chillingly distinctive print . . ., His inquiries at taverns, markets, and slave dances reveal little about Hellfire Hessy sin
