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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: Jun 1999
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
Retail Price: $9.99
Pages: 416
One of the fortunate black men to be free in 1830s New Orleans, Benjamin January--a trained surgeon and musician--lives among white men and their black slaves. But when a black woman accused of murdering her white master comes to him for help, January risks his own safety to do all he can for her, doggedly pursuing the truth behind a heavy veil of lies and hate. A