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I suspect that the author has taken a screenplay and turned it into prose without realising that novelists have a different skill set from dramatists. 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.
His team-- Camille, Dwayne and Fidel-- have hopes of converting Poole to their island lifestyle, but I personally believe they're doomed to failure. The story takes place on the beautiful island of Saint Marie, in reality French Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. I think my only main criticism of the book was that it was a bit long, so at times my attention would temporarily flag. He still wears his trademark dark woollen suit every day – because that is what Detective Inspectors wear. Now if only Thorogood can keep writing Death in Paradise novels forever with Inspector Poole and Sergeant Bordey, that would just fine with me.A Meditation on Murder is the first novel based on the BBC TV Show Death in Paradise, written by Robert Thorogood. 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. Sent to this small Caribbean island from England to fill in for another inspector, Poole is still there, stuck somewhere that he loathes. 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. Soon, Helen finds herself trying to avoid becoming Instafamous while bringing some peace to a girl who very much needs it.
Poole is investigating the stabbing death of wellness guru Aslan Kennedy at his high-end hotel, The Retreat. This is the disadvantage of cosy shows: the lack of realism means nobody is really allowed to process emotions in a believable way. 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. The opening page also implies an element of arrogance that can go with such a lifestyle, when it mentions how Kennedy’s attitude towards time, ‘made making appointments with him a little trying […] But that wasn’t Aslan’s problem. In other words, can anything happen in these stories that hasn't already happened in the series (say, vis-à-vis Richard and Camille's relationship.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.
It’s a classic locked room mystery, and there are soon lots of additional unexplained mysteries for the team to solve.Information is often repeated in dialogue, in a way that would probably make sense spoken aloud, but looks like unnecessary padding when written down.
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