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(0)Julie Wassmer
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Language
English
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Heartwarming, compelling and genuinely remarkable, More Than Just Coincidence is the true story of a mother who was reunited with her daughter, twenty years after she gave her up for adoption, in the most incredible of circumstances.
One hot summer day in 1970, teenaged Julie dressed her 10-day-old baby daughter for the last time. Then she placed her newborn into a nurse's arms and walked away, taking with her only a tiny plastic bracelet on which...
Author
Series
Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 1
Publisher
Constable
Language
English
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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...
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Series
A Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 3
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
09/18/2018
Language
English
Author
Series
A Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 2
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
09/18/2018
Language
English
Author
Series
Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 5
Publisher
Constable, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Whitstable Pearl restaurant has been busy all summer while Pearl's detective agency has brought few interesting cases - until a prospective client calls... Christina Scott confides that seven years ago she had the perfect life with a seaside home, a confirmed pregnancy and Steven, a loving husband - until one morning she woke to find herself alone. Christina's husband had vanished, taking nothing with him but his car - which was later found abandoned...
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Series
Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 7
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A controversial new property development is planned in Whitstable which will encroach upon the green open space of the downs, to the dismay of Whitstable residents who view this as the thin end of the wedge with regard to local wildlife conservation. A campaign springs into life, spearheaded by a friend of Pearl's family, Martha Laker. A committed environmentalist, Martha is no stranger to controversy herself. Tensions escalate between the developers...
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Series
Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 8
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...
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Series
Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 4
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...
9) Murder fest
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Series
Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 6
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Pearl's detective agency takes a back seat as she prepares to offer a warm welcome to a group of special visitors. A local Arts Festival is being held to honor a cultural exchange visit from representatives of Borken - Whitstable's Twin Town in Germany. Yet very soon, personality clashes surface among the participants; local politicians try to use the festival for their own ends while others jostle for improved billing on the festival program. Tempers...