the new Benjamin January mystery

[ratcreature]

I just finished reading the newest Benjamin January mystery, House of the Patriarch, that just came out, and I continue to really enjoy the series.

Though I missed interactions with the regular secondary characters in this one, as none of them besides Chloe Villard have more than brief appearances. I liked the mystery and the setting with all the weird religious groups and spiritualists in New York State, and some of the introduced supporting characters, like Hambly's version of P.T. Barnum, were fun, but I like the books in which January interacts more with his friends and family better, even though I mostly read for the main character.

Still, it was engrossing enough for me to stick with it and read it in two reading sessions, rather than just frittering time away with useless room scrolling, which unfortunately a lot of books don't manage these days. So I don't regret paying the rather high price for an ebook (which cost over €12).

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[sholio]

Ahhh! I didn't know there was a new one out! But yeah, I'm not nearly as fond of the ones that don't have at least some of the main cast. I might get this one in kindle rather than wanting the dead-tree version to go on my bookshelf.

Glad to have the heads-up about it, though - thank you! :)

[ratcreature]

I only noticed because I bought 17 not long ago, and Amazon offered 18 as a preorder afterwards. At that time it wasn't even showing on the series page on Goodreads, I edited that then, because it bugged me when I was tracking my books.

It actually looks like the dead tree version isn't even out yet. At least my Amazon had the hardcover offered only as preorder coming out in October, and Goodreads even gives a date next year (not sure whether that is a UK/US edition thing?), so that might explain why you missed it, they'll probably promote the hardcover release more. Though it seemed a bit odd to me for the hardcover to come after the ebook. Maybe it's because of the pandemic.