Books in the A Benjamin January Mystery series

New Orleans, 1838. Benjamin January finds his services playing piano at extravagant balls are no longer required, so agrees to accompany Henri Viellard and his wife, Chloe, to Washington to look for a friend. It soon becomes clear that while the Viellard's friend is possibly dead, his enemies are ready to kill anyone who gets in their way.

New Orleans 1836: When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends a friend's funeral an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin - only to reveal the corpse of a white man: Hannibal Sefton, one of January's closest friends. But he seems unwilling to talk about his connection to the dead man.

1838. When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - claims to have found the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January refuses to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, a place full of dangers. But others are after the treasure - and they believe January and his family stand in their way...

1840. When Eve Russell vanishes into thin air, her frantic parents call on free man of color Benjamin January for help. Did the teenager run away - or was she kidnapped? The answer lies in distant New York, a hotbed of new religions, of human circuses . and of dangerous slave traders. If January uncovers the truth, will he ever get home to tell it?