Plantation owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson and murder at Mon Triomphe, the estate where January was enslaved as a child. January despises Fourchet, but he knows that if the culprit is not found the plantation’s enslaved workers will be punished collectively.
Disguised as a field hand, January returns to the cane fields and quarters of his childhood. The investigation forces him to navigate rivalries within the Fourchet family and the brutal economics of sugar production while concealing his education, medical knowledge and legal status from people who could sell him away at any moment.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tracy Chevalier
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