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Whitstable Pearl MysterySeries

Follow a resilient restaurant owner in a charming English seaside town, who unexpectedly finds her calling as a private investigator. With her establishment famous for its oysters, she tackles mysterious crimes that arise in her close-knit community. Each case blends intriguing puzzles with personal stakes, often drawing her into conflict with local law enforcement while uncovering long-buried secrets and confronting her own past.

Murder-on-Sea
Murder on the Pilgrims Way
May Day Murder
The Whitstable Pearl Mystery
Disappearance at Oare
Murder on the Downs

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    The Whitstable Pearl Mystery

    • 310 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.4(17)Add rating

    'What Colin Dexter did for Oxford, Julie Wassmer is intent on doing for Whitstable' Daily Mail Pearl Nolan always wanted to be a detective but life, and a teenage pregnancy, got in the way of a police career and instead she built up a successful seafood restaurant in her coastal home town of Whitstable - famous for its native oysters. Now, at 39, and with son Charlie away at university, Pearl finds herself suffering from empty nest syndrome . . . until she discovers the drowned body of local oyster fisherman Vinnie Rowe, weighted down with an anchor chain, on the eve of Whitstable's annual oyster festival. Is it a tragic accident, suicide - or murder? Pearl seizes the opportunity to prove her detection skills and discover the truth but she soon finds herself in conflict with Canterbury city police detective, Chief Inspector Mike McGuire. Then another body is discovered - and Pearl finds herself trawling the past for clues, triggering memories of another emotional summer more than twenty years ago . . .

    The Whitstable Pearl Mystery
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    Murder on the Pilgrims Way

    • 304 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.7(42)Add rating

    Pearl receives a surprise present from her mother, Dolly - an early summer break at a riverside manor house that has been recently transformed into an exclusive hotel - the newly named Villa Pellegrini. But when she discovers that she's actually booked in for a cookery course from the Italian celebrity chef, Nico Caruso, she begins to think again.

    Murder on the Pilgrims Way
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    Murder on the Downs

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    4.0(29)Add rating

    The Whistable Pearl Mysteries are an irresistible combination of seafood, murder, and a multi-tasking heroine on the coast of Kent

    Murder on the Downs