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There's a new Ben January book coming out on (appropriately) Jan. 1, Lady of Perdition. Based on the "look inside" preview, it looks like this one's going to be another road trip book, this time to the Republic of Texas.
PRE-ORDERED LIKE THE WIND :D
Comment under the cut on something in the preview chapters, and therefore lightly spoilery, relating to Shaw:
I don't think Shaw's personal opinions on slavery have ever been quite so clear as the scene in which he gets information out of a guy who sold a free young woman into slavery - with all that entails - by tying him up, setting the house on fire with him in it, and then, once the guy talks, just shooting him. His comments about it to Ben afterwards, in general tone, are sort of a mix of "I do this kind of thing so you don't have to" and "It's probably better than he deserved."
... I just have to say, there is no way Shaw has not known about Ben and Rose hiding fugitives under their house since probably the first week they did it. I mean, he has to "not know" for plausible deniability purposes, but ... he totally knows.
ETA: No wait, it's out on Kindle now?! Well, I know what I'm reading tonight.
PRE-ORDERED LIKE THE WIND :D
Comment under the cut on something in the preview chapters, and therefore lightly spoilery, relating to Shaw:
I don't think Shaw's personal opinions on slavery have ever been quite so clear as the scene in which he gets information out of a guy who sold a free young woman into slavery - with all that entails - by tying him up, setting the house on fire with him in it, and then, once the guy talks, just shooting him. His comments about it to Ben afterwards, in general tone, are sort of a mix of "I do this kind of thing so you don't have to" and "It's probably better than he deserved."
... I just have to say, there is no way Shaw has not known about Ben and Rose hiding fugitives under their house since probably the first week they did it. I mean, he has to "not know" for plausible deniability purposes, but ... he totally knows.
ETA: No wait, it's out on Kindle now?! Well, I know what I'm reading tonight.
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REVIEW PLEASE
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I understand they're not standard issue in Kentucky, but Shaw feels existentially like a character who should own a couple of six-guns, so I approve.
(Have the main characters had a duel in the series so far that wasn't that time in Dead Water where Hannibal actually didn't kill a guy?)
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Uh ... hmmm! I can't actually think of another one. Well, if there was a place where it seems likely to happen, Texas is definitely that place.
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Keep us posted.
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I just finished rereading the series from about book 5 (the opera one?) -- I foolishly decided I had read the early books enough, but now I'm eyeing them off thoughtfully. Anyway, I got to the end and discovered there were TWO new (to me) books -- the other being Cold Bayou, aka Uncle Veryl Gets Married And Chloe St Chinian Also Fights Crime. And, you know, a couple of the more recent books have been a bit on the lacklustre side for me -- Murder in July, for example -- but Ben Versus The Irish was great.
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