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.
From script to screen
Behind the scenes featurette
The free waters
Random acts
Civil war
Disappearance at oare
A cup o' kindness
The man on the blue plaque
Babylon
Night terrors
The offer
The gumshoe and the femme fatale
Hidden treasures
To those we love
Girl, whitstable beach
Death, the devil and the fool
Oysters kilpatrick
Prisoners of the past
Walking with ghosts
Someone like me
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