Disappearance at Oare (Wassmer Julie)(Paperback)

''While Oxford had Morse, Whitstable, famous for its oysters, has Pearl''Daily MailDisappearance at Oare is the fifth book in Julie Wassmer''s popular crime series - now a major Acorn TV drama, Whitstable Pearl, starring Kerry Godliman as private detective and restaurateur, Pearl Nolan.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 at the beautifully mysterious Oare Marshes. Now, with the legal presumption of Steven''s death about to be made, Christina shows a photograph to Pearl. It''s not of him, but of her young son, Martin, who has grown up without his father but Christina is adamant he now deserves to know the truth. And will Pearl help her solve the riddle of Steven''s disappearance? DCI Mike McGuire warns Pearl she''s on a fool''s errand but the case resonates with Pearl as she begins to uncover secrets and lies that take her on a dangerous journey back into her own past, as well as Christina''s...Praise for Julie Wassmer''s Whitstable Pearl Mysteries...''While Oxford had Morse, Whitstable, famous for its oysters, has Pearl . . . True to the tradition of class
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