Wet Grave

by Barbara Hambly

Book 6 in the Benjamin January Mysteries series.

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In the oppressive summer of 1835, Hesione LeGros, once the glamorous mistress of a Barataria pirate, is found murdered in a poor district outside New Orleans. Benjamin January remembers her former wealth and confidence, and the careful search of her shack suggests that the killer wanted something connected with her past.

A distinctive boot print links the death to contraband rifles, smugglers and another murder. January and Rose Vitrac are driven into the bayous and plantation country, where slave catchers and armed traffickers make every journey dangerous and where secrets from Louisiana’s age of piracy still have lethal value.