The Devil's Feast (Hardcover)

from Rdra1962

Read this without knowing it was the third of a series. Enjoyed it nonetheless and will now go back and read the first 2 books!

from lauriebrown54

In 1842 London, Captain William Avery finds himself inadvertently drawn into a possible murder investigation. At the end of a fantastic meal by celebrity chef Alexis Soyer at the Reform Club in the chef's own rooms, one man sickens and dies. At first glance it looks like cholera, but a closer loo...

from nbmars

This historical crime novel set in the 1840s is the third "Avery and Blake mystery," although I had not read the first two books in the series. Thus I had a bit of difficulty sorting out who was who and what was what at the beginning. Therefore I began by skipping ahead to the "Historical Afterwo...

from fhudnell

In this book, Avery and Blake investigate the deaths of several men who dined at an exclusive men's club in London. The kitchen is run by celebrity chef Alexis Soyer who is not only an incredible chef but the inventor of many kitchen innovations. I learned from the afterword that Soyer was a real...

from bayleaf

The Devil's Feast is the third novel in M.J. Carter's successful Avery and Blake mystery series. This time Jeremiah Blake is incarcerated in the dread Marshalsea Prison and Captain William Avery is on his own. When Avery stops by the famous Reform Club to check in on Matty, a kitchen maid (who ap...