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Food & Drink
Restaurants, Nightclubs, Bars, Pubs |
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| Avery Aames |
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Charlotte Bessette: proprietor
of Fromagerie Bessette, in fictional Providence, Ohio, in the Cheese
Shop mysteries |
| Allyson K. Abbott (Beth Amos) |
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Mackenzie “Mack” Dalton: owner of a bar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with Synesthesia, a neurological condition enabling her to smell noises or taste color, in the Mack’s Bar Mysteries |
| Ellery Adams (J.B. Stanley) |
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Olivia Limoges:
restaurant owner returning with Captain Haviland, a black standard
poodle, to her old home town, Oyster Bay, North Carolina |
| Riley Adams (Elizabeth Spann Craig) |
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Lulu Taylor:
owner of Aunt Pat’s rib joint, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the
Memphis Barbeque mysteries |
| Robin Allen |
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Poppy Markham: former sous chef turned public health inspector, in Austin, Texas, in the Culinary Cop series |
| Mary Kay Andrews (Kathy Hogan Trocheck) |
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BeBe
Loudermilk: triple-divorced restaurant owner,
and Eloise “Weezie” Foley, a recently divorced antique
dealer, in Savannah, Georgia |
| Connie Archer |
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Lucky Jamieson, inheriting the By the Spoonful Soup Shop, in fictional Snowflake, Vermont, in the Soup Lover’s mysteries |
| Tony Aspler |
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Ezra Brant: wine journalist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Sandra Balzo |
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Maggy Thorsen:
40-something divorcée running a coffee shop, Uncommon
Grounds, with two women friends in the small fictional town of Brookhills,
Wisconsin |
| Robert G. Barrett |
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Les Norton: nightclub
bouncer in Sydney, Australia |
| Jessica Beck (Tim Myers) |
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Victoria and Greg: running The Charming Moose Diner in Jasper Fork, North Carolina, in the Classic Diner mysteries |
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Suzanne Hart: proprietor
of a smalltown donut shop, with an ex-husband, wacky friend, and
hunky cop, in April Springs, North Carolina, in the Donut Shop mysteries |
| Lou Berney |
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Charles “Shake” Bouchon: professional wheelman who walks out of prison after a three-year sentence for grand theft auto determined to change his life and become a chef |
| Claudia Bishop |
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Meg Quilliam: chef
in Hemlock Falls, New York |
| Miranda Bliss |
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Annie Capshaw: recently
divorced, and her ex-beauty queen best friend, Eve DeCateur, in Arlington,
Virginia, in the Cooking Class mysteries |
| Michael Bond |
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Aristide Pamplemousse:
gourmet restaurant guide inspector, and
his bloodhound Pommes Frites, in Paris, France |
| Jacklyn Brady (Sherry Lewis) |
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Rita Lucero:
pastry chef in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Piece of Cake mysteries |
| Lucy Burdette (Roberta Isleib pseudonym) |
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Hayley Snow: 20-something food critic for Key Zest magazine, in Key West, Florida, in the Food Critic mysteries |
| Alexander Campion |
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Alexandre LeTellier, a portly food critic, and his wife Capucine, a police detective specializing in white-collar crime, in Paris, France, in the Capucine Culinary mysteries |
| Dorothy Cannell |
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Ben Haskell:
writer and chef, and Ellie Haskell, an interior decorator |
| JoAnna Carl (Eve K. Sandstrom) |
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Lee McKinney:
divorcee who returns to Michigan to work for her aunt's
chocolate business, in the Chocaholic mysteries |
| Sammi Carter |
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Abby Shaw: who leaves
a career in corporate law and a cheating husband to return to her
hometown of Paradise, Colorado, to take over her aunt’s
candy shop, Divinity, in the Candy Shop mysteries |
| Bailey Cates (Cricket McRae) |
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Katie Lightfoot, a novice witch and professional baker working at her aunt and uncle's bakery, in Savannah, Georgia, in the Magical Bakery mysteries |
| Joyce Cato (Faith Martin) |
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Jenny Starling: traveling cook and caterer in England |
| Chris Cavender |
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Eleanor Swift:
owner of pizza restaurant “A Slice of Delight” in Timber
Ridge, North Carolina, by Chris Cavender (Tim Myers) |
| Marie Celine |
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Kitty Karlyle: gourmet
chef for pets, in Los Angeles, California |
| Jessie Chandler |
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Shay O’Hanlon: co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool coffee shop, and amateur sleuth, along with JT Bordeaux, her cop girlfriend, in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Laura Childs |
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Theodosia Browning:
owner of the Indigo Teahouse in Charleston, South Carolina, in the
Tea Shop Mysteries |
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Cackleberry Club:
egg-themed restaurant run by three semi-desperate, 40+ women |
| Margaret Chittenden |
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Charlie Plato:
country-western tavern owner, in San Francisco, California |
| Eoin Colfer |
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Daniel McEvoy: Irish bouncer working in a seedy New Jersey bar |
| Susan Conant & Jessica Conant-Park |
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Chloe Carter: boy-crazy 20-something gourmand, in Brighton, Massachusetts |
| Amanda Cooper (Donna Lea Simpson) |
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Sophie Taylor: failed New York restaurateur and chef, returning to her grandmother's restaurant, Auntie Rose's Victorian Tearoom, in Gracious Grove, New York, in the Teapot Collector mysteries |
| Cleo Coyle |
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Clare Cosi:
manager of the Village Blend, a landmark coffeehouse in New York
City’s
Greenwich Village, in the Coffeehouse mysteries |
| Camilla T. Crespi |
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Simona Griffo: art
buyer for an advertising firm and gourmet cook, in New York City |
| Ellen Crosby |
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Lucie Montgomery:
operating her family’s winery in Virginia, in the Wine Country
mysteries |
| Grace Carroll (Carol Culver) |
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Rita Jewel, selling clothes and accessories to socialites at Dolce's Boutique, in San Francisco, California, in the Accessories mysteries |
| Peg Cochran |
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Giovanna (Gigi) Fitzgerald, leaving New York City to run a gourmet shop in Woodstone, Connecticut, in the Gourmet De-Lite mysteries |
| J.J. Cook |
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Zoe Chase: new owner of a fixer-upper diner, and running a food truck in Mobile, Alabama, in the Biscuit Bowl Food Truck series by J.J. Cook (Joyce & Jim Lavene) |
| Shelley Costa |
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Eve Angelotta: 30-ish former dancer, now chef at her family’s Italian restaurant outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Judith Cutler |
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Josie Welford: new owner of the White Hart Pub in Kings Duncombe, a West Country village, and Nick Thomas, a Food Standards Agency inspector, in England |
| Diane Mott Davidson |
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Goldy Bear:
single mom and caterer, in Aspen Meadow, Colorado |
| Lauren Wright Douglas |
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Allison O’Neil: lesbian Bed & Breakfast owner and refugee from California, in fictional Lavner Bay, Oregon |
| Jerrilyn Farmer |
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Madeline Bean:
caterer in Hollywood, California |
| Nancy Fairbanks |
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Carolyn Blue:
food writer, and her husband Jason Blue, a scientist
specializing in how to clean toxins from the environment, in El
Paso, Texas |
| Amanda Flower |
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Bailey King, leaving New York to take over Swissmen Sweets, her Amish grandparents’ candy shop, in Harvest, Ohio, in the Amish Candy Shop mysteries |
| Joanne Fluke |
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Hannah Swensen: manager
of The Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota |
| Yasmine Galenorn |
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Emerald O’Brien:
tea shop owner and psychic, in the Chintz’n China Mysteries |
| Daryl Wood Gerber |
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Jenna Hart: avid reader, admitted foodie, and owner of a cookbook store in the fictional coastal town of Crystal Cove, California, in the Cookbook Nook mysteries |
| J.G. Goodhind |
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Honey Driver: owner
of the Green River Hotel and amateur sleuth, in Bath, England |
| Nadia Gordon |
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Sunny McCoskey: chef
in wine country, Napa Valley, California |
| Pip Granger |
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Rosie Featherby: child
raised by her Aunt Maggie and Uncle Bert running a Soho cafe in early
1950s London, England |
| Kerry Greenwood |
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Corinna Chapman:
former banker, now running a bakery, Earthly Delights,
in Melbourne, Australia |
| Victoria Hamilton (Donna Lea Simpson) |
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Merry Wynter: an expert muffin baker who inherits a mansion in fictional Autumn Vale, New York, in the Merry Muffin mysteries |
| Ellen Hart |
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Sophie Greenway:
magazine editor and food critic for Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the
Culinary Mysteries |
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Jane Lawless:
lesbian restaurateur in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Tim Hemlin |
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Neil Marshall: graduate
student in creative writing, struggling poet, and part-time chef
and caterer, in Houston, Texas |
| Lee Hollis (Rick Copp & Holly Simason) |
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Hayley Powell: single mother writing the food column for the Island Times, in Bar Harbor, Maine, in the Food and Cocktails mysteries |
| Charlie Huston |
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Henry Thompson:
former high school star baseball player, now a
bartender with a drinking problem in Paul's Place, on the Lower East
Side of Manhattan, New York City |
| Julie Hyzy |
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Olivia (Ollie) Paras: White House assistant chef in Washington
DC, in the White House Chef mysteries |
| Takis and Judy Iakovou |
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Nick Lambros: Greek
immigrant and cafe owner, and Julia Lambros, cafe owner and part-time
speech pathologist in Delphi, Georgia |
| Lee Jackson |
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Sarah Tanner: proprietor
of the Dining and Coffee Rooms and amateur sleuth, in 1850s London,
England |
| Sue Ann Jaffarian |
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Madison Rose:
waitress in Los Angeles, California, in the Fang-in-Cheek vampire
mysteries |
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Emma
Whitecastle: a divorced mom, and the ghost of her pie-baking
great-great-great-grandmother, Granny Apples, amateur sleuths |
| Claire M. Johnson |
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Mary Ryan: pastry
chef in San Francisco, California |
| Karen Kijewski |
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Kat Colorado:
bar-tending private investigator, in Sacramento,
California |
| Dean R. Koontz |
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Odd Thomas: fry cook
who can communicate with the dead, in the fictional small town of
Pico Mundo, California |
| Cecile Lamalle |
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Charly Poisson: chef and co-owner of La Fermette, the best (and
only) French restaurant in Van Buren County, upstate New York, in
the Culinary mysteries: |
| Janet Laurence |
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Darina Lisle: caterer-chef
and food writer in West Country, England |
| Cynthia Lawrence |
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Catherine “Cat” Deean:
part-owner of a catering enterprise
in Los Angeles, California, in the the Mysteries for
Food Lovers |
| Con Lehane |
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Brian McNulty: bartender in 1980s Manhattan, New York City |
| David Leitz |
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Max Addams: fly-fisherman
and owner of Whitefork Lodge, a bed and breakfast in Vermont |
| John Lescroart |
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Dismas Hardy:
ex-cop bartender and ex-Assistant District Attorney
turned defense attorney, and Abe Glitsky, a black, Jewish cop, in
San Francisco, California |
| Bill Loehfelm |
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Maureen Coughlin:
29-year-old cocktail waitress at The Narrows bar, on Staten Island,
New York |
| Karen MacInerney |
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Natalie Barnes: inn proprietor on Cranberry Island, Maine, in the Gray Whale Inn mysteries |
| Dominic Martell (Sam Reaves) |
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Pascual: bartender
in Old Barcelona, Spain |
| Claire McNab |
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Kylie Kendall: lesbian
manager of a pub in tiny Wollegudgerie, Australia, who inherits 51%
of her father's private detective agency in Los Angeles, California |
| Carol Miller |
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Daisy McGovern: pastry chef barely supporting her invalid mother, in a small town in southwestern Virginia, in the Moonshine mysteries |
| Manuel Vázquez Montalbán |
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Pepe Carvalho:
ex-CIA agent, former communist, and gourmet private investigator,
in Barcelona, Spain |
| Liz Mugavero |
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Kristan “Stan” Connor, retreating from corporate public relations to bake organic pet treats, in fictional Frog Ledge, Connecticut, in the Pawsitively Organic series |
| T. Lynn Ocean |
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Jersey Barnes: former
marine anti-terrorist specialist turned private security investigator
and bar owner, in Wilmington, North Carolina |
| Gail Oust |
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Piper Prescott: transplanted Yankee running a spice shop, in fictional Brandywine Creek, Georgia, in the Spice Shop mysteries |
| Ann Parker |
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Inez Stannert: saloon owner, around 1880 in Leadville, Colorado, in the Silver Rush mysteries |
| Allan Pedrazas |
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Harry Rice:
30-something tavern owner and part-time sleuth, based
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| George P. Pelecanos |
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Nick Stefanos:
bartender and private eye, in Washington, DC |
| Joanne Pence |
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Angelina Amalfi: food columnist and restaurant reviewer, in San
Francisco, California |
| W.L. Ripley |
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Cole Springer:
former Secret Service agent and saloonkeeper, in Aspen, Colorado |
| Al Roker with Dick Lochte |
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Billy Blessing: celebrity
chef and restaurateur, and food anchor for morning TV show Wake
Up America!, in New York City |
| Delia Rosen |
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Gwen Katz Silver, from Manhattan, inheriting a Jewish deli, Murray’s Pastrami Swami, in Nashville, Tennessee, in the Deadly Deli mysteries |
| Barbara Ross |
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Julia Snowden, returning to her hometown to run the Snowden Family Clambake Company, in fictional Busman’s Harbor, Maine, in the Maine Clambake mysteries |
| Michele Scott |
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Nikki Sands: in the Napa Valley, California,
in the Wine Lover’s Mysteries |
| Connie Shelton |
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Samantha Sweet:
caretaker for the USDA who opens a pastry shop in northern New Mexico |
| Paige Shelton |
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Becca Robins, who
makes jam on her farm to sell at her twin sister Alison’s farmers
market in rural South Carolina, in the Farmer’s Market mysteries |
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Isabelle “Betts” Winston and
her grandmother (Gram) who runs a cooking school in the fictional
town Broken Rope, in southern Missouri, in the Country Cooking School
mysteries |
| Bill Shoemaker |
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Coley Killebrew:
ex-jockey turned restaurant owner, in southern
California |
| Robert Skinner |
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Wesley Farrell:
Creole nightclub owner passing for white, in 1930s
New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Phyllis Smallman |
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Sherri Travis:
self-proclaimed “white trash” and a bartender in the
small beach town of Jacaranda, Florida |
| Rex Stout |
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Nero Wolfe: private
investigator, orchid cultivator, and
gourmet, and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, in New York City |
| Martin Sylvester |
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William Warner:
wine merchant and amateur sleuth, based in London, England |
| Kathleen Taylor |
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Tory Bauer: diner
waitress in Delphi, South Dakota |
| Lou Jane Temple |
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Heaven Lee: trendy
restaurant owner-chef in Kansas City, Missouri |
| Ross Thomas |
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“Mac” McCorkle:
saloon owner, and Mike Padillo, a spy, in Bonn, Germany |
| Gayle Trent |
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Daphne Martin: cake
decorator back in her home town in southern Virginia |
| Livia J. Washburn |
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Phyllis Newsom:
elderly amateur sleuth and pie expert, in Weatherford, Texas, in
the Fresh-Baked mysteries |
| Wendy Lyn Watson |
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Tallulah “Tally” Jones:
recently divorced and running an ice cream shop (Remember the A La
Mode) in Dalliance, Texas, in the Mystery a la Mode series |
| Melinda Wells (Linda Palmer) |
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Della Carmichael:
owner of a cooking school and star of “Della Cooks,” a
cable TV cooking show, in Santa Monica, California |
| Michael Lee West |
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Teeny Templeton: pastry chef and cooking instructor in Charleston, South Carolina |
| Charlie Williams |
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Royston Blake: head
doorman at Hopper’s Wine Bar & Bistro, in the town of Mangel,
in the West Country of England |
| Ovidia Yu |
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“Aunty” Lee: feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of a home-cooking restaurant, in Singapore |
| Sarah Zettel |
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Charlotte Caine: chef
running Nightlife, a restaurant serving the undead in New York City,
in the Vampire Chef mysteries |
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