Gourmet Detective

Gourmet Detective[1] is an American-Canadian series of made-for-television mystery films based on a book series of the same name from author Peter King[2] that stars Dylan Neal[3][4] as Henry Ross, a chef turned culinary sleuth and Brooke Burns[5][6] as Detective Maggie Price. Set in San Francisco, it airs on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries in the US.

Gourmet Detective
Genre	Mystery
Created by	Peter King
Written by	Peter King Becky Southwell Dylan Neal Dawn DeKeyser
Directed by	Scott Smith Terry Ingram Mark Jean
Starring	Dylan Neal Brooke Burns
Music by	James Jandrisch Jeff Tymoschuk
Country of origin	United States Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	5
Production
Executive producer(s)	Becky Southwell Dylan Neal Michael Prupas Steve Valentine Joel S. Rice
Producer(s)	Harvey Kahn Charles Cooper
Running time	83–84 minutes
Production company(s)	Muse Entertainment
Release
Original network	Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Original release	May 16, 2015 (2015-05-16) – present (present)
External links
Website

Main cast

• Dylan Neal as Henry Ross, a charming, single chef and gourmet consultant who is also famous as a blogger
• Brooke Burns as Detective Maggie Price, a leading detective with the Homicide Division in the San Francisco Police Division
• Matthew Kevin Anderson as Munro, part of Detective Price's team
• Marc Senior as Bailey, part of Detective Price's team
• Samantha Ferris as Captain Forsyth, Captain of the Homicide Division and Maggie's boss who first hires Henry as a consultant on one of the cases
• Ali Skovbye as Abigail, Maggie's teenage daughter who lives with her mother
• Christine Willes as Doris, Maggie's mother who lives with her
• Shannon Chan-Kent as Lucy, Henry's devoted assistant who helps him maintaining his blog and with research on his cases
• Brenda Crichlow as Dr. Erica Nolan, the Medical Examiner who works with the Police Department
• Bruce Boxleitner as Jim Ross, Henry's father who was a retired cop.

Characters

• A dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.

Character	Title
	The Gourmet Detective	A Healthy Place to Die	Death Al Dente	Eat, Drink and be Buried	Roux the Day
Henry Ross	Dylan Neal
Detective Maggie Price	Brooke Burns
Munro	Matthew Kevin Anderson
Bailey	Marc Senior				Alex Barima
Captain Forsyth	Samantha Ferris
Abigail	Ali Skovbye
Doris	Christine Willes
Lucy	Shannon Chan-Kent			Shannon Chan-Kent
Dr. Erica Nolan	Brenda Crichlow				Lossen Chambers
Jim Ross				Bruce Boxleitner

Films

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"The Gourmet Detective"	Scott Smith	Peter King, Becky Southwell, Dylan Neal	May 16, 2015 (2015-05-16)[7]
Maggie Price is a tough workaholic detective with the San Francisco Police Department and works in the homicide division. Recently divorced, she lives with her mother and thirteen-year old daughter Abigail. A casual date turns into an encounter with the gourmet detective Henry Ross who portrays himself as a charming and confident man with a refined taste for food. They are thrown together when an investigative journalist dies at a restaurant owned by Henry's friend. All guests are suspects including Henry but he is paired up with Detective Maggie Price since he knows everyone and everything about the food industry in town.
2	"Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die"	Scott Smith	Peter King, Dawn DeKeyser, Becky Southwell, Dylan Neal	August 2, 2015 (2015-08-02)[8]
Forced to take a vacation, Detective Maggie Price reluctantly accompanies Henry to a spa resort where Henry and other chefs are presenting their work at a conference. Henry meets journalist Kathleen Evans who has something to tell him but she goes missing the same night. Henry and Maggie must work quietly to catch the unsuspecting culprit as secrets, affairs, and scandals emerge.
3	"Death Al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery"	Terry Ingram	Peter King, Becky Southwell, Dylan Neal	October 9, 2016 (2016-10-09)[9]
Henry's friend and restaurateur Leo owns the hottest Italian restaurant in town but it is evident he doesn't get along with his star head chef Matteo. After a break-in at the restaurant, Leo ends up dead with Henry and Maggie working the case. Tensions between them increase as their exes reappear. Both are forced to question their feelings for each other while the case leads them to Leo's family treasure.
4	"Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink, and Be Buried"	Mark Jean	Peter King, Becky Southwell, Dylan Neal	October 8, 2017 (2017-10-08)[10]
Henry and Maggie have been together for three months now. They attend a wealthy businessman and Henry's friend, David Weston's birthday party where Henry is catering food. During an enactment of a scene from the eighteenth century, a fake gun ends up killing one of David's four children. It is up to Henry and Maggie to find the killer as it gets likelier that they may be a family member, and that other family members may also be in danger.
5	"Roux the Day: A Gourmet Detective Mystery"	Mark Jean	Dylan Neal, Becky Southwell	January 19, 2020 (2020-01-19)[11]
Henry is hired to authenticate and purchase a long lost and very valuable recipe book. Soon Henry and Maggie find themselves in a murder mystery where secrets hidden within a treasured book have dire consequences for all who own it.

Production and filming

The series is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, with production based in Victoria on Vancouver Island.[12] The first film in the series featured the English Inn in Esquimalt as a five-star restaurant.[13] Scenes from the fourth film in the series, Eat, Drink and Be Buried were filmed in Oak Bay and near Trafalgar Park.[14][15]

References

1. "'Gourmet Detective' Is Hallmark Channel's Newest Scintillating Culinary Murder-Mystery". Eater. 22 April 2015.
2. https://www.goodreads.com/series/51259-gourmet-detective
3. "'B&B' Alum Dylan Neal Writes And Stars In Hallmark's 'Gourmet Detective'". Soap Opera Network. 13 January 2015.
4. "Dylan Neal stars in 'Gourmet Detective' on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries". Herald Extra. 16 May 2015.
5. "Gourmet Detective Exclusive Interview Brooke Burns". AssignmentX. 16 May 2015.
6. "Big Picture: Gourmet Detective star has an appetite for comedy". Times Colonist. 4 March 2016.
7. Gables, Rick and Christina (May 12, 2015). ""Gourmet Detective" Dishes up a Delectable Murder Mystery". "TV Weekly Now". Retrieved March 8, 2018.
8. "Hallmark Movies Gourmet Detective 2, Dylan Neal and Brooke Burns Find Dead Body". "Hollywood Daily Star". August 2, 2015.
9. "Hallmark cooks up another mystery with 'Death Al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery'". "Herald Extra". October 12, 2016.
10. "Movies 24 Sets UK Premiere Date For 'The Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink, And Be Buried'". "TVWise". 30 November 2017.
11. . "IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9450768/reference. Missing or empty |title= (help)
12. "Fifty Shades Darker Filming in Vancouver Starts This Week". "What's Filming". February 15, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
13. "There's a television mystery at Esquimalt's English Inn". Times Colonist. 24 November 2014.
14. "Filming spotlights Oak Bay Ave". Oak Bay News. 18 July 2017.
15. "Murder mystery movie films on local site, donates to Victoria Hospice in lieu of location fee". Oak Bay News. 29 December 2017.

External links

• The Gourmet Detective on IMDb
• The Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die on IMDb
• Death Al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery on IMDb
• Eat, Drink & Be Buried: A Gourmet Detective Mystery on IMDb
• Roux the Day: A Gourmet Detective Mystery on IMDb