The Devil's Feast

Name: The Devil's Feast
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: M.J. Carter
ISBN: 9781681684000

Author: M.J. Carter

Series: Blake and Avery Novel #3

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Unabridged: 11 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 04/28/2017

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

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

About M.J. Carter

M.J. Carter is a biographer, historian, and thriller writer who was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and Exeter College, Oxford. She worked as a publisher and journalist before beginning research on her biography of Anthony Blunt in 1994. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. Anthony Blunt: His lives (2001), her first book, won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize, and was shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Biography Award. In the US it was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best books of 2002.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Always

I haven't read the first two books in the series but it didn't really matter because the book can stand alone which I appreciate. I really loved Matty. The writing was good and the plot line was interesting. I don't care much for politics but I still enjoyed it and I really liked that the author gav......more