Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the
bride ... The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery.
"Don't go to Cold Bayou, brother ... Nuthin' good waiting for you
there."
New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed
to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner
Veryl St-Chinian. All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old,
profoundly infatuated Uncle Veryl to an 18-year-old Irish tavern-slut
spells potential disaster for everyone in the inter-married Viellard and
St-Chinian clans. But the old man is determined to marry Miss Ellie
Trask, and nothing will stand in his way.
On the isolated plantation of Cold Bayou where the ceremony is to take
place, tension is rife even before the body is discovered in the woods
behind the dower house, its throat cut. A yet more disturbing turn of
events sees January himself accused of the crime...