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Food & Drink
Restaurants, Nightclubs, Bars, Pubs
Nathan Aldyne
  • Dan Valentine & Clarisse Lovelace: owners of a gay bar in Boston, Massachusetts

Mary Kay Andrews (Kathy Hogan Trocheck)
  • BeBe Loudermilk: triple-divorced restaurant owner, and Eloise “Weezie” Foley, a recently divorced antique dealer, in Savannah, Georgia

Tony Aspler
  • Ezra Brant: wine journalist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robert G. Barrett
  • Les Norton: nightclub bouncer in Sydney, Australia

Claudia Bishop
  • Meg Quilliam: chef in Hemlock Falls, New York

Miranda Bliss
  • Annie Capshaw: recently divorced, and her ex-beauty queen best friend, Eve DeCateur, in Arlington, Virginia, in the Cooking Class mysteries

Michael Bond
  • Aristide Pamplemousse: gourmet restaurant guide inspector, and his bloodhound Pommes Frites, in Paris, France

Dorothy Cannell
  • Ben Haskell: writer and chef, and Ellie Haskell, an interior decorator

Joanna Carl (Eve K. Sandstrom)
  • Lee McKinney: divorcee who returns to Michigan to work for her aunt's chocolate business, in the Chocaholic mysteries

Sammi Carter
  • 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

Marie Celine
  • Kitty Karlyle: gourmet chef for pets, in Los Angeles, California

Laura Childs
  • Theodosia Browning: owner of the Indigo Teahouse in Charleston, South Carolina, in the Tea Shop Mysteries

Margaret Chittenden
  • Charlie Plato: country-western tavern owner, in San Francisco, California

Susan Conant & Jessica Conant-Park
  • Chloe Carter: boy-crazy 20-something gourmand, in Brighton, Massachusetts

Ellen Crosby
  • Lucie Montgomery: operating her family’s winery in Virginia, in the Wine Country mysteries

Cleo Coyle
  • Clare Cosi: manager of the Village Blend, a landmark coffeehouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village, in the Coffeehouse mysteries

Isis Crawford
  • Bernie and Libby Simmons: caterers in Longely, New York, in the Mystery with Recipes series

Camilla T. Crespi
  • Simona Griffo: art buyer for an advertising firm and gourmet cook, in New York City

Judith Cutler
  • 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
Mary Daheim
  • Judith McMonigle Flynn: bed and breakfast owner in Seattle, Washington

Diane Mott Davidson
  • Goldy Bear: single mom and caterer, in Aspen Meadow, Colorado

Jerrilyn Farmer
  • Madeline Bean: caterer in Hollywood, California

Nancy Fairbanks
  • Carolyn Blue: food writer, and her husband Jason Blue, a scientist specializing in how to clean toxins from the environment, in El Paso, Texas

Joanne Fluke
  • Hannah Swensen: manager of The Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota

Yasmine Galenorn
  • Emerald O’Brien: tea shop owner and psychic, in the Chintz’n China Mysteries

Anne George
  • Mary Alice “Sister” Crane: country-western bar owner, and Patricia Anne “Mouse” Hollowell, a retired English teacher, in Alabama, in the Southern Sisters mysteries

Nadia Gordon
  • Sunny McCoskey: chef in wine country, Napa Valley, California

Kerry Greenwood
  • Corinna Chapman: former banker, now running a bakery, Earthly Delights, in Melbourne, Australia

Thomas H. Griffith
  • Ron Jobeman: former clergyman managing fast-food restaurants in Hollywood, California

Ellen Hart
  • Sophie Greenway: magazine editor and food critic for Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the Culinary Mysteries
  • Jane Lawless: lesbian restaurateur in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tim Hemlin
  • Neil Marshall: graduate student in creative writing, struggling poet, and part-time chef and caterer, in Houston, Texas

Charlie Huston
  • 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
  • Olivia (Ollie) Paras: White House assistant chef in Washington DC, in the White House Chef mysteries

Takis and Judy Iakovou
  • Nick Lambros: Greek immigrant and cafe owner, and Julia Lambros, cafe owner and part-time speech pathologist in Delphi, Georgia

Cathie John
  • Kate Cavanaugh: gourmet caterer in Cincinnati, Ohio
Karen Kijewski
  • Kat Colorado: bar-tending private investigator, in Sacramento, California

Peter King
  • Goodwin Harper: food consultant in London, England

Cecile Lamalle
  • 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
  • Darina Lisle: caterer-chef and food writer in West Country, England

Cynthia Lawrence
  • Catherine “Cat” Deean: part-owner of a catering enterprise in Los Angeles, California, in the the Mysteries for Food Lovers

Con Lehane
  • Brian McNulty: bartender in 1980s Manhattan, New York City

David Leitz
  • Max Addams: fly-fisherman and owner of Whitefork Lodge, a bed and breakfast in Vermont

John Lescroart
  • Dismas Hardy: ex-cop bartender and ex-Assistant District Attorney turned defense attorney, and Abe Glitsky, a black, Jewish cop, in San Francisco, California

Rob Loughran
  • David O’Kane: restaurateur in Nightingale, Nevada

Karen MacInerney
  • Natalie Barnes: inn proprietor on Cranberry Island, Maine, in the Gray Whale Inn mysteries

Dominic Martell (Sam Reaves)
  • Pascual: bartender in Old Barcelona, Spain

Claire McNab
  • 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

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
  • Pepe Carvalho: ex-CIA agent, former communist, and gourmet private investigator, in Barcelona, Spain

Amy Myers
  • Auguste Didier: master chef in Victorian London, England
Ann Parker
  • Inez Stannert: saloon owner, around 1880 in Leadville, Colorado, in the Silver Rush mysteries

George P. Pelecanos
  • Nick Stefanos: bartender and private eye, in Washington, DC

Joanne Pence
  • Angelina Amalfi: food columnist and restaurant reviewer, in San Francisco, California

Virginia Rich
  • Eugenia Potter: widowed chef in Maine and Arizona
(series continued by Nancy Pickard)

Phyllis Richman
  • Chas. Wheatley: restaurant critic in Washington, DC

W.L. Ripley
  • Cole Springer: former Secret Service agent and saloonkeeper, in Aspen, Colorado

Michele Scott
  • Nikki Sands: in the Napa Valley, California, in the Wine Lover’s Mysteries

Bill Shoemaker
  • Coley Killebrew: ex-jockey turned restaurant owner, in southern California

Robert Skinner
  • Wesley Farrell: Creole nightclub owner passing for white, in 1930s New Orleans, Louisiana

Rex Stout
  • Nero Wolfe: private investigator, orchid cultivator, and gourmet, and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, in New York City

Kathleen Taylor
  • Tory Bauer: diner waitress in Delphi, South Dakota

Lou Jane Temple
  • Heaven Lee: trendy restaurant owner-chef in Kansas City, Missouri

Ross Thomas
  • “Mac” McCorkle: saloon owner, and Mike Padillo, a spy, in Bonn, Germany

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