![]() Pearl is beginning to transition from a restaurant owner who solves the occasional crime to a detective who happens to own a restaurant. With Season 1 covering the debut novel, The Whitstable Pearl Mystery, and the more recent Book 5, Disappearance at Oare, there also looks to be plenty of stories to adapt should the show run for several years.Īs word gets out about Pearl's new detective agency, townsfolk start coming to her with all types of cases. Wassmer released the seventh novel in the series in 2021 and currently shows no signs of stopping. ![]() That almost guarantees a multiple-season run ahead for Godliman and Charles, should they decide to stay with the series long-term. The show is getting a second season on AcornTV because, though it is an exclusive for the streamer in the U.S., New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K., the international rights for the detective series have taken off. Though the series saw the two hook up, Pearl had announced she needed space by the end of Season 1 after discovering McGuire's workaholic nature. But when his world collides with Nolan's, he discovers the quiet hotbed of crimes in this sleepy seaside village where unsuspecting tourists come for boating and oysters. McGuire is a recent London transplant who expected his time working as a detective in Whitstable to be punishingly dull. ![]() She'll be rejoined by co-star Howard Charles ( Shadow & Bone), who plays DCI Mike McGuire. The twist on the formula helped propel the six-part series, and now Godliman will be returning for another batch of crime-solving in Season 2. Based on Julie Wassmer's Whitstable Pearl Mysteries, Pearl Nolan is no dabbler but an ex-cop who had to quit her job to be a single mother and now spends her life running a restaurant with her mother, Dolly ( Frances Barber), when she really wants to be solving crimes. But the series, which stars Kerry Godliman ( After Life) as Pearl Nolan, managed to bring in a few twists to separate itself from the pack, not just because the series is set in the gorgeous beachfront town of Whitstable. "And so she's a very independent practitioner, but she's also the sort of woman, I think, secretly some women would have loved to be able to be.Whitstable Pearl, AcornTV's new seaside-set mystery series, is yet another entry into the growing pantheon of non-investigators playing detective in sleepy British towns. If she wants a man in her life, she'll just take him, use him, have him and discard him as we normally see men do with women. She's got a mouth on her, she'll tell it like it is, doesn't care who it is. Harry, of course, drinks too much wine, you know, hangs out at the pub, is quite belligerent. "I don't think I've ever seen or heard of a character like this.," Seymour says. So she takes him under her wing and they form an unlikely investigative team.įilmed last summer in Dublin, the eight-episode series also stars Amy Huberman ("Finding Joy") and Stuart Graham ("The Fall") and counts among its executive producers Seymour, who fell in love with Harry's fierce independence. Along the way, she crosses paths with her mugger, teenage Fergus (Rohan Nedd), who she realizes is not such a bad kid and actually has skills she could use in working the case. Noting its similarities to an Elizabethan play, she launches her own investigation. Roughed up in a mugging, she's forced to temporarily move into his home with his wife and daughter, where she stumbles across his notes in a murder case.
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