A selection of novels set in restaurants and/or dealing with food and cooking.
| Atwood, Margaret | Edible Woman |
| Beck, K.K. | The Body in the Cornflakes (Mys) |
| Berger, Thomas | Reinhart’s Women |
| Cannell, Dorothy | Thin Woman (Mys) |
| Daheim, Mary | Just Desserts |
| Davidson, Diane Mott | Killer Pancake (Mys) Last Suppers (Mys) Cereal Murders (Mys) Main Corpse (Mys) Dying for Chocolate (Mys) |
| Deval, Jacqueline | Reckless Appetites |
| Ephron, Nora | Heartburn |
| Esquivel, Laura | Like Water for Chocolate |
| Flagg, Fanny | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe |
| Hess, Joan | Maggody in Manhattan (Mys) |
| Keyes, Frances Parkinson | Dinner at Antoine’s |
| Lanchester, John | The Debt to Pleasure |
| Laurence, Janet | Death and the Epicure (Mys) Recipe for Death (Mys) Death at the Table (Mys) |
| Leyner, Mark | Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog |
| Lyons, Nan | Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe (Mys) Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of America (Mys) |
| Naylor, Gloria | Bailey’s Cafe |
| Page, Katherine Hall | The Body in the Bouillon (Mys) The Body in the Cast (Mys) |
| Pesetsky, Bette | Midnight Sweets |
| Pickard, Nancy | 27 Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders (Mys) The Blue Corn Murders (Mys) |
| Rich, Virginia | The Cooking School Murders (Mys) The Nantucket Diet Murders (Mys) The Baked Bean Supper Murders (Mys) |
| Richman, Phyllis | The Butter Did It (Mys) |
| Roudybush, Alexandra | Gastronomic Murders (Mys) |
| Stout, Rex | Too Many Cooks (Mys) |
| Tyler, Anne | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
