A Meditation on Murder: A gripping and uplifting cosy crime mystery from the creator of Death in Paradise: Book 1 (A Death in Paradise Mystery)

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Aslan is the co-owner of a luxury Retreat hotel in a small island in Caribbean, managing it with his wife. 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.

This book also reminds me of the killer Poirot faces in The ABC Murders (1936), in the sense that the killer is manipulating the investigation through the evidence they leave for the police to find. This is an absolute must read for anyone who loves the TV series, “Death in Paradise”, but it’s also easy enough to pick up even if you have never come across the show.Twitter creeping has revealed that there are some people out there who think they have amazing chemistry, but I assume they've been watching a different show to me. 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. Information is often repeated in dialogue, in a way that would probably make sense spoken aloud, but looks like unnecessary padding when written down. Even worse, the most recent episodes have attempted to set up a sort of 'will they/won't they' romantic tension between Humphrey and Camille.

A great celebration of the original show as written by the original creator of the show with charcters he thought of first. I only gave this 4 stars because I spotted whodunnit a bit too easily for my liking, but I always try to spot the killer in each episode too. For whatever reason, they've often helped to get me through depressive periods when little else would lift my mood.In 2008, Robert entered the inaugural Red Planet Prize and was a chosen finalist, where he was able to pitch his 'Copper in the Caribbean' idea to Tony Jordan. But it's a comfortable sort of show, intended as cosy midweek entertainment, and I'm aware it's silly to analyse much of it in any further depth than that.

Some of these I spotted and some I did not and even the ones I did spot I didn’t properly remember them to fit them into the case as I went along.Selwyn Patterson the commissioner who kinda wheeled and dealed the talents of DI Poole to his tropical paradise as lead investigator does play no real role in this book but he is always around somewhere. His second in command Camille Bordey, a beautiful woman with the intelligence to match that, is always annoyed by her so quintessential English boss who at tropical temperatures still wears his woolen suit and who is so incredibly smart and a fickler for details. What if the carving knife we found by the body is a double bluff and the killer used this tiny drawing pin to stab the victim to death?