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We do also get some great descriptions such as this: ‘he frowned like a barn owl who’d just received some bad news. As a classic whodunnit, some clues reveal themselves to our detective team slowly and we try to solve it through the book. Aslan is the co-owner of a luxury Retreat hotel in a small island in Caribbean, managing it with his wife. I only figured out it was based on a TV show when I read it and saw the faces of the actors on the back of the novel (It didn't occurred to me to study the covers prior to reading it).
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. 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. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. It happens during a meditation in a paper room but the girl (fair Julie) who confessed to it couldn't have had done it.She confesses to his murder – but can’t explain how she did it, or how the knife came to be in the room. This was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, with frustrating amounts of repetition that were somewhat jarring at times. Information is often repeated in dialogue, in a way that would probably make sense spoken aloud, but looks like unnecessary padding when written down. 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.
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. Twitter creeping has revealed that there are some people out there who think they have amazing chemistry, but I assume they've been watching a different show to me.While at Cambridge, he toured with the university's student comedy troupe Footlights in 1993 and was elected President in 1994. I'll be honest it is difficult to be objective about the characterisation in this book because I'm unsure how much of my prior knowledge I used while reading, but suffice to say Richard Poole a detective dispatched from Croyden to police the island was instantly recognisable, as was the rest of the team.
That is not where similarities end for there are many ways in which this crime novel reminds me of those written by Agatha Christie. It is too calm and nice a read for my crime fiction tastes and I should have known that by the fact that I don't watch the TV programme A Death in Paradise.True to form, at the crime scene Poole becomes obsessed with the presence of a seemingly insignificant object, a drawing pin. 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. At an hotel a guru like figure gets lethally stabbed in a closed room with only 5 possible suspects and during the story we find out that almost all of them have a very strong reason to see this man dead.
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