The Devil''''s Feast

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 facade-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 his mentor and partner-in-crime Jeremiah Blake? And what if this first death was only a dress rehearsal for something far more sinister? See more