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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I am not saying this is a bad thing, but I have to admit to getting the Death in the Paradise theme tune stuck in my head after I finish these prologues and the dead body has been discovered! I have always enjoyed watching the BBC series Death in Paradise, particularly the early series with Ben Miller as DI Richard Poole so was quite thrilled when I received a review copy of A Meditation on Murder – the first novel by its creator Robert Thorogood. Sent to this small Caribbean island from England to fill in for another inspector, Poole is still there, stuck somewhere that he loathes. This odd group of talents always get underestimated but at the end of the case anybody still doubting their talents has probably not paid attention.

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. Nevertheless, Poole is not depicted as an infallible sleuth, as he does have to walk down a few dead ends before figuring out the correct solution.But you know what, I'll probably read all the books in the series regardless of their imperfections: it's lovely to see these characters living on in some form. I think there is something therapeutic about observing Poole as he woefully resists/struggles adjusting to the Saint-Marie climate. You can tell he is a fan of Agatha Christie, the piecing together of the crime is a delight to read and in no way did I even come close to guessing. It’s a classic locked room mystery, and there are soon lots of additional unexplained mysteries for the team to solve.

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. One with an intelligent but peculiar and eccentric detective inspector who invariably solves the murder crime in the end. An English Policeman get sent to a Caribbean Island to solve the murder of the chief detective and he gets kinda stuck there and he somewhat like a fish out of the water except this policeman is deadly afraid of water. Something else I enjoy about the way the puzzle is constructed in this novel is that the author does not recourse to having their sleuth discover crucial evidence off the page and instead the reader is shown the data he has collected and the questions he has about it. I have already picked up on some of the comic elements of the mystery but I like how each book I have read in the series so far has had some kind of humorous subplot.

Determined to track down the real killer, DI Poole is soon on the trail, and no stone will be left unturned. Information is often repeated in dialogue, in a way that would probably make sense spoken aloud, but looks like unnecessary padding when written down. 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. I also assumed that it might take place on one of the Caribbean islands (because- Death in Paradise). It is too calm and nice a read for my crime fiction tastes and I should have known that by the fact that I don't watch the TV programme A Death in Paradise.

I may be at a disadvantage because I have never watched the TV series and am only vaguely aware of it so I had no preconceptions of what this book would be like but was expecting something a bit special as it is linked to prime time drama and has many positive reviews. That is not where similarities end for there are many ways in which this crime novel reminds me of those written by Agatha Christie. Determined to track down the real killer, Poole is soon on the trail and he won't leave any stone unturned. It is a story which really kept my attention – with its twists and turns and red herrings which meant that I was convinced at times that nearly all the suspects were guilty. Let me start by saying that I haven't seen nor do I know anything about the BBC series this book is based on.Weel worth your time reading, have you not seen the show yet, go and watch it first and after you have fallen in love with them read the book (and the next two, I know I want to). Especially loved Richard Poole, his hangups and his love/hate relationship with the lizard colonizing his home and the island he finds himself living in. In this one, Aslan Kennedy gets killed by stabbing with a knife in a small Japanese tea house while he was doing a meditation session with his clients.