I can say that there were moments of "slowness" but it wasn't enough to stop you from reading it, being that the same man who wrote the show wrote the books, it was very true to form. By 2011, when the show was finally broadcast - making it Robert's first TV broadcast credit at the age of 39 - Robert had become something of a poster boy for 'never giving up on the dream'. 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. If you're at all familiar with the formula of the show you'll probably know who the killer is almost immediately.

I am pretty much in agreement with your comments, though I think I found the repetition more irritating than you did, and wouldn’t go as high as 4. From what I can figure out, 'cosies' invariably seem to involve dreadful pun-laden titles, a disproportionate amount of plots revolving around baking, and people solving murders with the aid of their pets. 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.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. In fact, he’d been waking with the sun ever since he’d decided a few years back that he no longer believed in alarm clocks. 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. If you are a fan of the BBC/Netflix show A Death in Paradise, then reading this book would def be the most logical step. 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.

There is no sex, no violence, no bad language in this story which would appeal to any fans of Agatha Christie, who I am sure must have been a huge influence for the author. I wonder if it makes a difference if you go from writing scripts to novels rather than going from writing novels to scripts.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. 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. or are these mysteries supposed to be taking place in between those already depicted on screen, prior to Richard's death? This was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, with frustrating amounts of repetition that were somewhat jarring at times. 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.