Description: The author who"continues to delight us with her sensuous evocation of New Orleans" provides another sumptuous feast in the series The New York Times hails as"a masterly piece of historical storytelling. It's October of 1835 and Mexico City is caught in the grip of intense political upheaval between the upper-caste aristocracy and the Spanish Creoles. So when Benjamin January's friend is accused of killing the son of an extremely powerful Mexican landholder, he and his wife, Rose, must journey there to right an unspeakable wrong. But who stood to gain the most from the death? As the day of Los Todos Santos--the Feast of the Dead--approaches, January must discover the truth behind the mystery, before the specters of the dead reach up from the grave to claim his friend for themselves.

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