The Devil's Feast - A Blake and Avery Mystery
Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 368 |
Format | 13,2 x 19,8 x 2,3 cm |
B-format paperback | |
Gewicht | 264 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | The Blake and Avery Mystery Series 3 |
ISBN-10 | 0241966884 |
EAN | 9780241966884 |
Bestell-Nr | 24196688EA |
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 ment or and partner-in-crime Jeremiah Blake? And what if this first death was only a dress rehearsal for something far more sinister?
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Wonderful . . . the whodunit plot takes in celebrity chefs, extraordinary cuisine, international diplomacy and and Victorian political shenanigans. The Devil's Feast proves to be a sumptuous treat. The Times