Cette série plonge les lecteurs au cœur de mystères palpitants, en suivant des affaires complexes où des vérités cachées sont révélées. Chaque épisode explore plus profondément l'esprit de ses personnages centraux, dont les compétences uniques et les liens personnels sont essentiels à la résolution de crimes complexes. Les récits se distinguent par des intrigues bien ficelées et une atmosphère de suspense qui vous tient en haleine jusqu'à la toute fin. C'est un choix captivant pour ceux qui aiment les histoires de détectives classiques avec une touche contemporaine.
William Avery, a down-at-heel junior officer in the Company's army, is sent to find him, in the unlikely company of the enigmatic and uncouth Jeremiah Blake. A more mismatched duo couldn't be imagined, but they must bury their differences as they are caught up in a search that turns up many unanswered questions and seems bound to end in failure.
Set in Calcutta during 1837, the narrative follows William Avery, a struggling junior officer in the East India Company, tasked with locating the missing Scottish author Xavier Mountstuart. Paired with the enigmatic Jeremiah Blake, their contrasting personalities create tension as they navigate a perilous search filled with mysteries and dangers. As Avery confronts the harsh realities of their quest, he discovers unsettling truths that challenge his beliefs and threaten his life, pushing him to confront the complexities of colonial India.
It wasn't just blood, it was ink too. There was black ink on his face and more on his chest and fingertips. Not just the usual printer's stain, but like his fingers had been pressed in it . . . London, 1841. Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have both had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian England. Moreover, time and distance have weakened the close bond between them, forged in the jungles of India. Then a shocking series of murders in the world of London's gutter press forces them back together. The police seem mysteriously unwilling to investigate, and as connections emerge between the murdered men and the growing and unpredictable movement demanding the right to vote for all, Blake and Avery must race against time to find the culprit before he kills again. But what if the murderer is being protected by some of the highest powers in the land?
t's 1841, and something very strange is going on in the back streets of London. There has been a series of dreadful murders in the slums of the printing district, which the police mysteriously refuse to investigate, yet the culprit must be caught before he kills again. Three years after we left them at the close of The Strangler Vine, and in very different circumstances, Blake and Avery find themselves reunited in a race against time to find and stop the murderer.
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. 'Richly detailed and smartly plotted' S J Parris, Observer on The Printer's Coffin 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 his mentor and partner-in-crime Jeremiah Blake? And what if this first death was only a dress rehearsal for something far more sinister?
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