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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We’ve got a dead body over there that’s covered in knife wounds, so let’s concentrate on a tiny piece of metal we’ve found on the floor over here. 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. They own a spa retreat that offers yoga and spirituality as some of its treatments for the wealthy that visit the tropical Island. If you're like me or Richard Poole however you'll be driven to distraction by the nagging little problems that really should have been caught and perhaps would have been in a book that wasn't presumably seen as a guaranteed money spinner and spared the editorial attention it needed.

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. Example: I think Anne might be overweight, but it's difficult to tell, since her weight, size, shape and her being 'larger than life' (groan) are only mentioned about 5000 times. Having enjoyed watching the BBC's "Death in Paradise," I looked forward to reading its creator's first mystery novel using the same setting and characters.A great celebration of the original show as written by the original creator of the show with charcters he thought of first.

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.

Richard Poole is a man who is pedantic, hates the sand, the heat and the lizard that shares his shack but for these very reasons, he is the man to lead an investigation with his rigour around the minutest detail. She confesses to his murder – but can’t explain how she did it, or how the knife came to be in the room. This book takes us back to the beginning when DI Richard Poole has been on the tropical island for close to a year and has some issues with a small green lizard sharing his beachfront property, watch the show for the wit in that description. 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.

Detective Inspector Richard Poole is hot, bothered, and fed up with talking to witnesses who'd rather discuss his 'aura' than their whereabouts at the time of the murder. For whatever reason, they've often helped to get me through depressive periods when little else would lift my mood. So once again I completely failed to spot the murderer despite the liberal scattering of clues that had presented themselves to Richard Poole's eagle eyes, masked as they were with the obligatory red herrings along the way.

Our detective is Richard, who's actually British, moving to the island after an incident he was investigating there. Wow our reading has seriously been in tune this year as I think we have read two books the same this year already.