Crimson Angel

by Barbara Hambly

Book 13 in the Benjamin January Mysteries series.

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Jefferson Vitrack, the white half-brother of Rose January, arrives with a clue to a family treasure hidden in Haiti. Benjamin refuses to join the search, but Vitrack’s murder and attacks on Benjamin and Rose convince him that the killers will continue until someone finds the gold.

The pursuit carries January through Cuba and into the Black republic created by the Haitian Revolution. Plantation records, memories of enslavement and competing claims to the treasure reveal how wealth extracted under colonial rule continues to shape the living, while January uses himself as bait to draw the murderers into the open.