The two I read which prompted this post are:
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2. Paws for Murder (2014) by Annie Knox which is also the first in a new series. The main character, Izzy, and her best friend Rena, are both vegetarians. I reviewed it here.
UK Vegetarian Sleuths
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DS Annie Cabbot first appeared in In a Dry Season (1999), the tenth in the Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson. I believe Annie wobbles a bit on the path of true vegetarianism but is pretty close.
Added May 2018:
Roz Watkins's lead character DI Meg Dalton is vegetarian. The series which is set in Derbyshire's Peak District began with The Devil's Dice (2018).
US Vegetarian Sleuths
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Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar has a vegetarian one-man killing machine sidekick called Win. The first book in the series is Deal Breaker (1995).
Judy Fitzwater's six-book (soon to be seven) series features aspiring crime novelist and vegetarian Jennifer Marsh. The first book, Dying to Get Published (1995), is currently free as an ebook.
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Jaqueline Girdner also wrote a four-book series as Claire Daniels about a holistic healer. The first book is Body of Intuition (2002). I am assuming these also feature a vegetarian sleuth.
Added May 2018:
Bones to Pick by Linda Lovely introduces Vegan chef Brie Hooker. There are currently two books in the series.
Update 21/5/15
Golden Age writer, Victor L Whitechurch wrote a number of short stories featuring Thorpe Hazell - "vegetarian, detective and expert in all aspects of the railway" and at least some of these have made available on Kindle by Black Heath Editions. See comments section for more information.
7 comments:
Great topic
I have a book on my wishlist called FALLING INTO GREEN by Cher Fischer - it's American and looks cosy but I put it on there because it's all very eco/green and the blurb says the protagonist is a female vegetarian :)
What an interesting post, Karen. I'd not thought about vegetarianism, but as you show, it's certainly there in the genre. Thanks for the 'food for thought.' :-)
Laura adds via Facebook - Stuart MacBride's Logan McCrae - and I also wonder if Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon should be on the list?
Also from Facebook, Rik contributes - An old one - 1912 - is/was the Reverend V.L. Whitechurch's Thorpe Hazell, "book collector and railway enthusiast, a gentleman of independent means", who "carried vegetarianism to an extreme". As far as I can tell he appeared in only one book, a collection of short stories entitled either "Thrilling Stories of the Railway" or "Stories of the Railway", which was reprinted by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1977. Five of the stories were abridged and read by Benedict Cumberbatch for Radio 4 Extra.
Hello, just saw your post. May I introduce Becki Green, an artsy-fartsy vegetarian designer who's a sidekick in A PURSE TO DIE FOR and the protagonist of several published, award-winning short stories? She even writes a veggie blog at http://www.vegetariandetective.blogspot.com. Drop by anytime and say hi. PS Becki sleuths in Canada.
I think David Hewson's Nic Costa is vegetarian. At least he was in the first book.
From twitter: Mark Edwards: Kate Maddox, Catch Your Death, is veggie (like me). Though she's not really a detective so that's probably not much help!
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