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The Devil`s Feast: The Blake and Avery Mystery Series (Book 3)
For lovers of Sherlock, Shardlake and Ripper Street. A hugely enjoyable heart-pounding Victorian thriller: murder, a celebrity chef and a great detective double-act.Long-listed for a CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger`Wonderful … The Devil`s Feast proves to be a sumptuous treat` The Times`Criminally good … I love this mystery series – it just gets better and better` Woman & Home London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London`s newest and grandest gentleman`s club. A death the club is desperate to hush up. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate, and soon discovers a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and political, simmering behind the club`s handsome facade – and in particular concerning its resident genius, Alexis Soyer, `the Napoleon of food`, a chef whose culinary brilliance is matched only by his talent for self-publicity. But Avery is distracted, for where is his mentor and partner-in-crime Jeremiah Blake? And what if this first death was only a dress rehearsal for something far more sinister?