Lloyd Fouracre was walking home with friends along Gypsy Lane, Taunton after leaving another friend's 18th birthday party on September 25, 2005. England, murder, murder-investigation, senior-sleuths, law-enforcement, abusive-spouse, abuse, bullies, PTSD*** explores all the murder and debauchery in the seemingly perfect English seaside town of Whitstable…’ Washington Post A wonderful way to explore Whitstable . . . if you love cosy mysteries, then get acquainted with Pearl (and her mum and her cats!) and enjoy a trip to Whitstable through the eyes of this very convincing author’ Trip Fiction Official Synopsis: (Originally published as “A Reason to Kill”) Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years. But the job was never supposed to be for real. She put all that behind her when she moved to the sleepy town of Franthum-On-Sea. Here on the Dorset coast, she runs her own pin-neat guest house and life is blissfully quiet. Until a brutal killer comes to town.

The 31-year-old smothered Catherine Wells-Burr, 23, as she slept at their home in Chard in September 2012.At the end of October 2011, Tabak was found guilty of the murder of Joanna Yeates – the jury didn't believe his story that he had 'accidentally killed her' while trying to stifle her scream. Scandi noir meets the English seaside in Whitstable Pearl, a murder mystery series based on Julie Wassmer’s novels…’ Drama Quarterly Charlie Broadway, 24, wounded Wilfie Isaacs Jnr, 22, before pointing the double-barrelled pump-action shotgun at his father Wilfred Isaacs Snr, 49, and shooting him dead at close range. Rina thinks that the intruders were after her gun, although it was of new real use to anyone. But who would have wanted the gun ... and willing to kill for it?

After an extensive missing person appeal and search, her body was found on Christmas Day 2010 in Failand in North Somerset. That cringey phrase ‘cozy crime’ should be ditched for a start. There was nothing ‘cozy’ about a violent murder of an elderly disabled lady or of the descriptions of domestic abuse. And was it people smuggling? It was actually quite bleak! I saw others draw parallels between Rina and Mrs. Marple, and I wouldn’t quite agree, other than Rina’s in her early sixties and knows the people in her neighbourhood, and human behaviour, well. Rina’s far more active and involved than Marple was, and for all her storming into the police station at the beginning of this book, I see Rina as kinder than the Victorian-minded Marple. And, besides, damaged DI Sebastian McGregor needs all the help he can get to solve this baffling case . . .Rina Martin, a resident of Frantham-On-Sea, us a retired actress with a taste for solving crime. (Think of Jessica Fletcher Murder, She Wrote or Miss Marple). When her friend and neighbor is murdered, she feels that Mac could use some help. A minor crime led to one of Hampton's daughters being added to the criminal DNA database - which flagged up a match with a full DNA profile the police had of Melanie's murderer.

Owen Pellow, of Burnham-on-Sea, was with his partner, Lisa-Marie Thornton on the morning of November 23, 2017. A few doors down, harmless old Mrs Freer is bludgeoned to death, and Rina can’t help but be drawn into the mystery. After her release, she spent the rest of her life in St Andrews Hospital in Northampton and died in 1983. Read More Related ArticlesIt is easy to believe that Somerset does not see the kinds of brutal crimes that are seen in other parts of the country. Noreen O'Connor was acting as the nurse, housekeeper, secretary and companion for Marie Tarks and Frank Tiarks. Owen Pellow was jailed for life after murdering his ex-partner in Burnham-on-Sea (Image: Avon and Somerset Police)