Robert Thorogood is the creator and writer of the hit BBC One series DEATH IN PARADISE, now in its fourth series, showing at 9pm on Thursdays in January and February 2015. Now, for the first time, he brings the TV show’s favourite characters to life on the page in an all-new locked-room mystery called A MEDITATION ON MURDER (a DEATH IN PARADISE novel).
In A MEDITATION ON MURDER, Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life as leader of a spiritual retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on one of the Caribbean‘s most unspoilt islands, Saint Marie. Until he’s murdered, that is. 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.
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. But he also knows that the facts of the case don’t quite stack up. 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. Determined to track down the real killer, DI Poole is soon on the trail, and no stone will be left unturned.