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In this case, the guru of a spiritual retreat on the island of Sainte-Marie is stabbed to death in a locked meditation room with five other people, one of whom has already confessed to the murder, but it doesn't take long for Poole to doubt her guilt. We follow the island detective team in this well paced story as it moves forward to a classic “Agatha Christie-ish” showdown finale wherein Richard and his team confront all the usual suspects, with Richard going through them one by one, outlining why he thinks each person could have done it, but why he thinks they are innocent – until he gets to the guilty party. 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. Murder in the Caribbean from the get-go deviates from the pattern established in books one and two in this series.
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. 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. With this novel written by the show's creator, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief as the original cast from the first two series is back in full force, including Richard, Camille, Sergeant Fidel Best, Officer Dwayne Myers, Camille's very French mother Catherine and Police Commissioner Selwyn Patterson. 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.
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”. 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? That's a small complaint however, because I love the humor in this book, and I love each and every character-- all the way down to Harry the lizard.
Soon, Helen finds herself trying to avoid becoming Instafamous while bringing some peace to a girl who very much needs it. I think my only main criticism of the book was that it was a bit long, so at times my attention would temporarily flag. Though I continue to watch and enjoy the show with its current cast, including its primary sleuth, the bumbling and good-natured Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman (played by Kris Marshall), I still miss the original cast, most especially the persnickety, pessimistic Detective Inspector Richard Poole (played by Ben Miller) and his number two, Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey (played by Sara Martins). This is one tv show that I actually advise anybody even if we have by bow arrived at the third English detective in Saint Marie and of the original crew only Dwayne and the Chief of Police remain. There's an ensemble 'guest cast' of characters - a group of people staying at a luxury spa hotel on Saint-Marie, plus the resort's owners and their shifty handyman - and a locked-room mystery.Wow our reading has seriously been in tune this year as I think we have read two books the same this year already. It was - complete with characters I enjoy, especially Detective Inspector Richard Poole, a homesick Brit, a fish out of water, but with great detecting skills, his young detective sergeant Camille Bordey and her amusing reactions to Poole, Officer Dwayne Myers, older and a bit of a cynic, and Poole's resident lizard Harry at his shack on the beach. The case seems open and shut: when Aslan was killed he was inside a locked room with only five other people, one of whom has already confessed to the murder.
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. 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. While at Cambridge, he toured with the university's student comedy troupe Footlights in 1993 and was elected President in 1994. Nevertheless, the puzzle kept me guessing until the end, with only my third option being the right one (not sure it counts when it takes that many attempts! 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.I was leery of trying this as it’s apparently based on a TV show and I haven’t had good luck with that type of thing, but it was only 99 cents on Kindle so I gave it a shot.
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