Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: May 24, 2021 (49 min)
Restaurant owner Pearl Nolan discovers the body of her friend and oyster supplier chained to the anchor of his ship. The police, led by out-of-towner Chief Inspector Mike McGuire, believe it was an accident, but Pearl, who also runs a private detective agency, suspects foul play.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: May 24, 2021 (47 min)
Working with local cop DS Nikki Martel, Mike investigates the death of a diabetic estate agent force-fed marmalade. When a woman hires Pearl to look into a large sum of cash left in her mailbox, Pearl discovers Whitstable may have a mysterious benefactor-but are they connected to the murder?
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: May 31, 2021 (46 min)
When an English Civil War re-enactment ends in tragedy, Pearl and Mike find themselves on opposing sides. Their inquiries reveal a community bitterly divided by the memory of a miner's strike and the possibility that there is more to the accident than first meets the eye.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jun 7, 2021 (49 min)
Pearl agrees to help a woman who received a note claiming her missing husband did not die from suicide. Pearl connects the case to a grief-counseling church group and a drowning years ago. As Christmas approaches, Mike sinks into a depression, despite taking on a new flat in Whitstable.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jun 14, 2021 (48 min)
When a mother takes her daughter out for a boat ride despite the father's wishes, the boat starts taking on water and the two need to be rescued. Was it an accident, or were they targeted? Pearl investigates while Mike tries to enjoy his time off from police duty in the days before New Year's Eve.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jun 21, 2021 (47 min)
A 30-year-old skeleton washes up on the shore, and the victim has a very personal connection to Pearl. Pearl's budding romance with Mike is threatened when he identifies a suspect close to home.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2022 (45 min)
An ex-soldier is believed to have kidnapped his son while visiting France, where the boy lives with his mother. Pearl and Mike team up to try and find the missing boy.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2022 (45 min)
Mike has broken his ankle and, laid up at home, begins to be disturbed by a man in a flat opposite who has violent night terrors. Mike becomes convinced that the night terrors are a cover for him planning to murder his wife. The police find no evidence to support this, so Mike hires Pearl to investigate further. She discovers a body, but it's not the person she and Mike were expecting.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Dec 5, 2022 (44 min)
After inheriting a beloved local pub from her mother, Molly Stratton puts it up for sale to the highest bidder, rather than selling it back to the community. She turns to Pearl for help to deal with the anonymous threats she's been receiving - including a dead seagull on her doorstep. When the pub is sold, the situation takes an even darker turn.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Dec 5, 2022 (44 min)
When 1970s movie icon Zelda St John changes her will, leaving her fortune to her housekeeper, Natalia, the young woman seeks out Pearl, fearing that Zelda's family might hurt her. Not long afterward, Zelda is found unconscious at her home, attacked with a croquet mallet, and Natalia disappears. Clashing over who they believe is responsible, Mike and Pearl lead separate investigations.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2022 (45 min)
Dolly notices unexplained things happening in her house: the shower being left on when she hasn't used it, money going missing and then reappearing, the radio tuned to the wrong station. Pearl fears her mother is showing early signs of Alzheimer's disease, but she hooks up security cameras to placate her. What they see on the footage leads to a surprising solution to the problem.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2022 (44 min)
Pearl caters a wedding at a theme park, but the reception is marred by heated arguments and tensions among the guests - and that's before Pearl and Ruby discover the bride stabbed to death in the hall of mirrors. Mike suspects the groom, but Pearl has doubts. Worried for her welfare, Mike urges Pearl to stay out of it, but she can't resist investigating, even when it leads her straight into danger.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2024 (45 min)
After seven years, a missing young mum is spotted on Whitstable Beach. Pearl wants to know where has she gone and why is she back?
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2024
A little girl goes missing at the Whitstable Psychic Fair and skeptical Pearl has to join forces with a psychic to help find her.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Nov 4, 2024
Just as Pearl allows herself a luxury weekend away with Tom, a food critic drops dead in the Whitstable Pearl. Will she come home or stay with Tom?
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2024
Why hasn't Charlie told Pearl that he is back from Canada and living in London? Her search for him leads her to find out more about Mike's past.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2024
Halloween gets even spookier when a ghost tour guide sees a body being buried on the beach in Whitstable. But Pearl wants to know where the body's gone?
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 25, 2024
A taxi driver turns up dead with a bullet through his head and an investment banker is nearly assassinated. Pearl goes to investigate who wants him dead.