Brenda R. (nurse) reviewed on 1/30/2007 + 221 more book reviews

I couldn't seem to get into this one. Benjamin January found a job playing piano at the Salled'Orleans. Where the elite American and French come to drink and dance.In trying to arrange a meeting between a white woman and her late husband's Creole mistress at a quadroon ball.
The Creole mistress,Angelique is suddenly found murdered, a scarf pulled tightly around her neck. Since the police don't feel compelled to solve the mystery of a colored whore, Ben can't let it rest and finds himself the one hunted,running for his life, knowing that he is caught he will inslaved or hung for murder. To uncover the truth his journey takes him through the seamy haunts of riverboatmenand into huts of voodoo-worshipping slaves. There is no safe place for A Free Man Of Color.

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