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?
