Disappearance at Oare

The Whitstable Pearl restaurant has been busy all summer but Pearl's detective agency has brought few interesting cases - until a prospective client calls...

Seven years ago, Christina Scott had the perfect life: 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, and Christina is adamant he deserves to know the truth.

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...

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