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 Mystery in the US.

Gourmet Detective
Genre	Mystery
Based on	series by Peter King
Written by	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	English
Production
Executive producers	Becky Southwell Dylan Neal Michael Prupas Steve Valentine Joel S. Rice
Producers	Harvey Kahn Charles Cooper
Running time	83–84 minutes
Production company	Muse Entertainment
Original release
Network	Hallmark Mystery
Release	May 16, 2015 (2015-05-16) – January 19, 2020 (2020-01-19)

Cast

• Dylan Neal as Henry "Gourmet Detective" Ross, a charming, single chef, gourmet consultant, and famous blogger. While assisting the police in investigating a murder at a restaurant, he demonstrates a useful investigative insight, and becomes an official police consultant on relevant cases.
• Brooke Burns as Detective Maggie Price, a leading detective with the Homicide Division in the San Francisco Police Department
• Matthew Kevin Anderson as Munro, part of Detective Price's team
• Marc Senior (films 1–4) and Alex Barima (film 5) 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 daughter who, until the fifth film, is a teenage girl living with her mother
• Christine Willes as Doris, Maggie's mother who lives with her
• Shannon Chan-Kent as Lucy, Henry's devoted assistant
• Brenda Crichlow (films 1–4) and Lossen Chambers (film 5) 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 policemen

Characters in each film

Character	Title
	Gourmet Detective	A Healthy Place to Die	Death Al Dente	Eat, Drink and be Buried	Roux the Day
Henry Ross	Dylan Neal
Det. Maggie Price	Brooke Burns
Munro	Matthew Kevin Anderson
Bailey	Marc Senior				Alex Barima
Capt. 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

Production and filming

The series is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, with production based in Victoria on Vancouver Island.^[7] The first film in the series featured the English Inn in Esquimalt as a five-star restaurant.^[8] Scenes from the fourth film in the series, Eat, Drink and Be Buried were filmed in Oak Bay and near Trafalgar Park.^[9][10]

Films

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"Gourmet Detective"	Scott Smith	Becky Southwell, Dylan Neal	May 16, 2015 (2015-05-16)[11]
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 because he knows everyone and everything about the food industry in town.
2	"Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die"	Scott Smith	Dawn DeKeyser, Becky Southwell, Dylan Neal	August 2, 2015 (2015-08-02)[12]
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	"Gourmet Detective: Death Al Dente"	Terry Ingram	Becky Southwell, Dylan Neal	October 9, 2016 (2016-10-09)[13]
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	Becky Southwell, Dylan Neal	October 8, 2017 (2017-10-08)[14]
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. Meanwhile, Henry's father drops in, forcing Henry to face more awkward memories such as the death of his mother and his issues with celebrating his birthday.
5	"Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day"	Mark Jean	Dylan Neal, Becky Southwell	January 19, 2020 (2020-01-19)[15]
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 the treasured book have dire consequences for all who own it.