The Devil's Feast

✍ Scribed by M.J. Carter

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 310 KB
• Edition: First U.S. edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0698168755

✦ Synopsis

**Investigative team Blake and Avery find themselves entangled in a case involving political conflicts, personal vendettas, and England's first celebrity chef.
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London, 1842. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate 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. What he soon discovers is a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and political, simmering behind the club's handsome façade. At the center is 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 is only a dress rehearsal for something far more sinister?
From the Hardcover edition.