The Whitstable Pearl mystery
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"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." --
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The novel itself would have scraped a *** review, but the narrator dragged it down to 2 stars. A good narrator can lift a book, but this one is clumsily read, so that I kept being taken out of the story. It's a contemporary cosy mystery, set in an English seaside town, with a bit of a love interest starting up, presumably to be continued in the rest of the series. The characters are a bit two dimensional, which is a bad thing in a cosy mystery, where you don't have drama, passion or violence to pep it up. It passes the time.
