laura alexander

It’s the end of the season at Bennett Station and, as a shocked Maya discovers, all the summer expeditioners are leaving Antarctica. Maya decides to be the exception to the rule and immediately sets about trying to stay for the Winter.

The campus is swarming with police, the actual crown jewels are still missing and there are an awful lot of murderers on the loose, Siobhan and Marcus have to ignore all this and save Anneka from something called 'The Whoosh'.

This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evening's festivities are interrupted - by murder. The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death.