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Hambly, Barbara,

House of the patriarch / Barbara Hambly. - London : Severn House, 2021. - 375 pages ; 23 cm. - The Benjamin January series .

"New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs Russell is adamant Eve's been kidnapped, but how could someone remove a teenager from a crowded deck in broad daylight? And why would anyone target Eve? The answer lies in New York, a hotbed of new religions and beliefs, of human circuses and freak shows and of blackbirders, who'll use any opportunity to kidnap a free man of color and sell him into slavery. January's determined to uncover the truth, but will he ever be able to return to New Orleans to share it?"--Back cover.

ISBN: 9781780291741 1780291744

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC133564 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020121058 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
January, Benjamin (Fictitious character) --Fiction.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1783-1865

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Free African Americans--Fiction.
Private investigators--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--1783-1865--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6