Philip Craig includes recipes, too -- usually for interesting ways to fix bluefish (I'm really salivating over the smoked bluefish pate) or oysters and clams.
J.W. may be an ex-cop who doesn't make many forays back to "America" (the mainland), but he's got decent taste and an educated palate (well, Sam Adams isn't my favorite brew)and READS. He's got a wide variety of interests even if he prefers clamming, saltwater fishing and living the good life on the Vineyard.
For interesting protagonist/location/special interest mysteries, I've just discovered the "Home Repair Is Homicide" mysteries of Sarah Graves, which take place in Eastport, Maine. Main character, a stressed out, divorced financial expert from NYC escapes to the far reaches of coastal Maine and tries to beat an old house into submission.