Whitstable Pearl
Created by Øystein Karlsen, Julie Wassmer
On Acorn TV
A cozy seaside mystery procedural built on warmth and community connection, where amateur detection is a vehicle for small-town relationships rather than high-stakes suspense.
With her son grown up, single mom Pearl Nolan decides to pursue her lifelong dream and launches a private detective agency, which she runs from her family's restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, locals soon flock to her with all manner of cases. But when an old friend dies suspiciously, Pearl finds herself in conflict with gruff new cop in town, DCI Mike McGuire.
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