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Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It's springtime and Whitstable is emerging from hibernation. While neither the restaurant nor detective agency is too busy, Pearl resolves to spend some time at the family allotment. But her best friend, Nathan, has persuaded one of his favourite actresses to open the May Day festivities at Whitstable Castle and involves Pearl in his plans. Like Pearl, Faye Marlowe is a Whitstable native, but having left the town more than two decades ago, the star...
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Pearl receives a surprise present from her mother: an early summer break at a riverside manor house that has been recently transformed into an exclusive hotel. The building lies on the old Pilgrims Way into Canterbury, and Pearl is looking forward to the break. 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... Pearl doesn't welcome instruction on cookery...
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A new dance school opens in Whitstable run by celebrity tango champions - Tony and Tanya Ballard. Pearl Nolan knows herself to be an ace cook and a sharp private eye but has always left the dancing to her mother, Dolly, a former member of the town's infamous Fish Slappers dance troupe. But Pearl becomes intrigued by the Ballards when they visit The Whitstable Pearl restaurant, and she realises that dance classes could provide the perfect cover for...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In Season One, Pearl juggled her commitments to the restaurant the eponymous Whitstable Pearl with her side hustle as a PI. In Season Two, Pearl prioritizes her detective work and transition from being a chef who solves crimes to a full-time investigator who just happens to own a restaurant. Pearl's cases overlap with DCI Mike McGuire's police investigations. Their relationship is charged by a determination to outdo each other, and a fiery mutual...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the novels by Julie Wassmer, this mystery series follows big-hearted restaurant owner Pearl Nolan, who sets up a local detective agency in the English seaside town of Whitstable after undergoing police training in an earlier career. She's joined by Detective Mike McGuire, who comes from London to investigate a case.