The Whitstable Pearl mystery

The novel itself would have scraped a *** review, but the narrator dragged it down to 2 stars. A good narrator can lift a book, but this one is clumsily read, so that I kept being taken out of the story. It's a contemporary cosy mystery, set in an English seaside town, with a bit of a love interest starting up, presumably to be continued in the rest of the series. The characters are a bit two dimensional, which is a bad thing in a cosy mystery, where you don't have drama, passion or violence to pep it up. It passes the time.