Peter King

Peter King is an English writer of nonfiction, mystery and thriller novels best known for his series The Gourmet Detective. King is also a professional chef. He has worked in a tungsten mine and managed the development and creation of South America’s first ever steel processing plant and also explored for minerals around the world.

The best place to start is the Gourmet Detective series, the earliest of Peter King's multi-book series: it opens with The Gourmet Detective (1994) and runs to 8 books across 1994–2003, ending with Dine and Die on the Danube Express (2003). Peter King's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Peter King has 13 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1994 and 2008. 11 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Gourmet Detective series with 8 books — and 2 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Peter King's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Gourmet Detective (1994–2003, 8 books) and Jack London (2001–2002, 3 books).

This guide splits Peter King's 13 books into 2 named series and 2 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Gourmet Detective (8 books, 1994–2003); Jack London (3 books, 2001–2002).