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Kerry Godliman leads cosy crime drama Whitstable Pearl

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[ Pick of the day: Whitstable Pearl 9pm, Drama Single mother Pearl (played by Kerry Godliman) pursues a lifelong ambition to become a private detective, running her sleuthing from her family’s oyster restaurant in Whitstable, Kent. If that sounds like the latest entry in the booming canon of cosy-crime TV, then prepare yourself to be … Read more

So stilted it felt like a murder mystery parody

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[ When it hit shelves in early 2021, Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood’s The Marlow Murder Club was the latest book to be categorised within the overstuffed subgenre of “cosy crime”. Released just months after Richard Osman’s similarly titled The Thursday Murder Club, it wasn’t just the red and black cover lettering the novels … Read more