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I still watch Death in Paradise - casually, kind of - but I've never quite forgiven it for quickly and brutally dispatching Richard and then making all the other characters forget him almost instantaneously. Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life as leader of a spiritual retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on one of the Caribbean's most unspoiled islands, Saint Marie. I am looking forward to trying the third and fourth books in the series, when they finally arrive in the post. Their camaraderie is good – they have a rapport with each other and there is chemistry but I am glad that the author resisted any impulse for them to get together – In a lot of ways Richard and Camille would make a wonderful couple – but it should never actually happen. The story itself is a traditional “locked room” whodunit and when local hotelier Aslan Kennedy is found murdered inside a locked room it seems an open and shut case – only five other people were in that room and one has confessed, after all.
Fans of the show who are missing DI Richard Poole have another chance to spend some quality time with him thanks to “A Meditation on Murder”.This book was extremely well written and characterised and having only seen the television trailers from the programme I can say it did remind me of the programme it is written on.
It is a standalone Richard Poole story with all the familiar characters (and more) from the series and it is a read which I really, really enjoyed. We do also get some great descriptions such as this: ‘he frowned like a barn owl who’d just received some bad news. Soon, Helen finds herself trying to avoid becoming Instafamous while bringing some peace to a girl who very much needs it.She is good at her job and despite the fact that she finds Richard’s ways exasperating – she likes him and is always on hand when he overheats in that suit. His a very straight laced police officer and to see him, not so much talk out loud for others to hear him, but for us as reader to see him more in a personal light was very delightful, and surprising. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading. This task turns out to be even more impossible when it becomes clear that they have been followed to Weeping Creek Ranch by a murderer. It’s a classic locked room mystery, and there are soon lots of additional unexplained mysteries for the team to solve.
If you're at all familiar with the formula of the show you'll probably know who the killer is almost immediately. But then Ben Miller, who played Richard, decided to leave, and the character was ruthlessly killed off, taking any hopes of a love story with him.But, Richard follows his instincts and through a mixture of old fashioned detective work and inspiration, reveals a story that goes back 20 years and which proves that any of the people in that room could in fact be guilty. Having been relaxing with headphones and eye-masks the murder was only discovered when the apparent murderer starts screaming.
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