Description
| Product ID: | 9780241966884 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Blake and Avery Mystery Series |
| Title: | The Devil's Feast |
| Subtitle: | The Blake and Avery Mystery Series (Book 3) |
| Authors: | Author: M. J. Carter |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Historical crime and mysteries, Historical mysteries, Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 façade - 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? 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-10-05 |