Ran Away

by Barbara Hambly

Book 11 in the Benjamin January Mysteries series.

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When two women disappear from the household of Huseyin Pasha, a visiting Ottoman official, no runaway notices are posted. After a witness claims to have seen him throw their bodies from a window, racial and religious prejudice make the foreigner an immediately convincing murder suspect.

Benjamin January knows Huseyin from Paris and doubts the accusation. His search for the missing women exposes the similarities and differences between slavery, concubinage and domestic dependence in New Orleans, while the people exploiting the scandal attempt to ensure that neither the women nor the truth can be recovered.