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Gourmet Detective Books in Order

Gourmet Detective is a series of 8 books written by Peter King.

Here, you can see them all in order! (publication year included)

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Gourmet Detective books in publication order

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8 books

1

The Gourmet Detective

by Peter King

1994

A London culinary consultant is drawn into restaurant intrigue when a chef seeks his help with a rival's prized dish. A death among an exclusive circle of food professionals turns his expertise in ingredients and menus toward murder.

2

Spiced to Death

by Peter King

1997

The Gourmet Detective travels to New York to authenticate a legendary spice thought lost for centuries. When the shipment vanishes and his business associate is killed, he investigates a market where culinary rarity can inspire deadly greed.

3

Dying on the Vine

by Peter King

1998

Hired to investigate a neighboring winery's strangely generous purchase offers, the Gourmet Detective arrives in Provence to find a corpse. Threats and unusual attacks follow as he searches for the motive behind a suspicious vineyard deal.

4

Death al Dente

by Peter King

1999

An actor commissions the Gourmet Detective to travel through Italy and choose a chef for a new restaurant. Sampling the country's cuisine becomes dangerous when the murder of an agricultural magnate interrupts his culinary assignment.

5

A Healthy Place to Die

by Peter King

2000

Filling in for a colleague at a Swiss mountain spa, the Gourmet Detective expects to demonstrate fine cooking. After an assault and a woman's disappearance, threats against him reveal dangers concealed behind the resort's luxurious surroundings.

6

Eat, Drink, and be Buried

by Peter King

2001

The Gourmet Detective is hired to create authentic food for a medieval festival at a castle. When a jousting knight dies of poisoning, his assignment expands into a murder inquiry amid dangerous reenactments and increasingly real threats.

7

Roux the Day

by Peter King

2002

A Louisiana restaurant loses its treasured family cookbook just as a new generation tries to take charge. The Gourmet Detective follows the missing recipes to a bookseller, whose murder sends him searching New Orleans for both book and killer.

8

The Gourmet Detective joins a luxury train's anniversary journey through Eastern Europe. A Hungarian actress's disappearance interrupts the lavish meals, and an increasingly strange investigation forces him and the security chief to confront a killer aboard.

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