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 fact, he's convinced that the person who's just confessed to the murder is the one person who couldn’t have done it. Camille, Dwanye, and Fidel) Another thing that I liked about this story was that we heard a lot more from Richard's POV. The first character we are introduced to is Aslan Kennedy and from the get-go he sounds like a potential murder victim.

Murder in the Caribbean from the get-go deviates from the pattern established in books one and two in this series. But the biggest treat is seeing Richard Poole in the midst of tropical heaven, who lives under his own personal dark cloud of grumpiness (in his proper wool suit ready for heatstroke), and equating sun, sand and surf with sheer hell.For the benefit of those who haven’t seen the show, “Death in Paradise” is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, near Guadeloupe. In addition, this first book in the series provides some further details about Poole as a person, rather than as a policeman. I was so annoyed by this by the midpoint that I started keeping a tally of the worst offender, "After all", which was used 15 times in the second half of the book. 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.

His team-- Camille, Dwayne and Fidel-- have hopes of converting Poole to their island lifestyle, but I personally believe they're doomed to failure. Soon after leaving Cambridge, Robert set up a theatre company that toured small theatres and schools, the highlight of which was a production of Molière's The Miser that he directed and acted in alongside Robert Webb, David Mitchell and Olivia Colman. Now, this is not something I normally mind, but I did feel that this novel was a tad bit overwritten and that's the only thing I didn't like about it. It's unclear at this point whether the books are designed to portray an 'alternate timeline' Death in Paradise or whether they take place within the known world of the show. This is the disadvantage of cosy shows: the lack of realism means nobody is really allowed to process emotions in a believable way.This was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, with frustrating amounts of repetition that were somewhat jarring at times. The island setting and the characters are just as they are in the series, and the story very much follows the way that the episodes are plotted.