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

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

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

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.

The fifth novel in the Pearl Nolan, Whitstable Pearl Mysteries, series

The sixth book in the Whitstable Pearl Mysteries series

The second novel in the Pearl Nolan trilogy, with a Christmas twist.

The third novel in the Pearl Nolan trilogy, centered around the May Day festivities in Whitstable.

'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 . . .

Pearl's tiny garden of Eden is transformed into a battlefield when the out of towners come to Whitstable...Pearl Nolan's coastal allotment has always been a quiet haven - somewhere for her to cultivate ingredients for her restaurant. But a sudden clamour for allotments by the DFLs - Down From Londoners - causes tension in the local community when the council decides to accommodate them by dividing existing plots into smaller parcels. The harmony that once existed between holders of land previously blighted only by slugs and caterpillars, soon transforms into a bitter turf war... and matters only deteriorate as a pushy DFL takes over as new chair of the allotment committee and insists on some new strict rules.A rash of crop rustling and sabotage breaks out. Pearl's services as private detective are called upon to discover the culprit but before she can do so, what began as a tiff among the turnips soon becomes a hunt for a killer when gardening tools are put to murderous use...