For lovers of Sherlock Shardlake & Ripper Street A hugely enjoyable heart-pounding Victorian thriller murder a celebrity chef & 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 & better' Woman & Home London 1842 There has been a mysterious & horrible death at the Reform London's newest & grandest gentleman's club A death the club is desperate to hush up Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate & soon discovers a web of rivalries & hatreds both personal & political simmering behind the club's handsome facade
- & 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 & partner-in-crime Jeremiah Blake? & what if this first death was only a dress rehearsal for something far more sinister?