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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 fa‡ade - 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?

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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

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M. J. Carter is a former journalist and the author of the Blake and Avery series: The Strangler Vine , The Printer´s Coffin (formerly published as The Infidel Stain ) and The Devil´s Feast , and two acclaimed works of non-fiction: Anthony Blunt: His Lives and The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One . M. J. Carter is married with two sons and lives in London.

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M. J. Carter is a former journalist and the author of the Blake and Avery series: The Strangler Vine, The Printer´s Coffin (formerly published as The Infidel Stain) and The Devil´s Feast, and two acclaimed works of non-fiction: Anthony Blunt: His Lives and The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One. M. J. Carter is married with two sons and lives in London.

M. J. Carter is a former journalist and the author of the Blake and Avery series, The Strangler Vine, The Printer´s Coffin (formerly published as The Infidel Stain) and The Devil´s Feast, and two acclaimed works of non-fiction, Anthony Blunt: His Lives and The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One. M. J. Carter is married with two sons and lives in London.

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