Julie Wassmer writes the Whitstable Pearl Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in England. It features 30-year-old seafood restaurant owner Pearl Nolan. She always wanted to be a detective but life, and a teenage pregnancy, got in the way of a police career. In the first book with her 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...
