Saint Marie (fictional island) the Euro. The island's main religions are Catholicism and Voodoo, with several religious festivals featuring in the programme, including the Saint Ursula Festival (in reality, a major festival of the Virgin Islands) and some Voodoo festivals. The series is filmed on Guadeloupe, and Deshaies doubles for the fictional town of Honoré. Saint Marie (fictional island) Saint Marie is a fictional island in the Lesser Antilles which serves as the setting for the BBC crime drama television series "Death in Paradise". Saint Marie is described in Episode 3.3 as a "pretty island" that is "situated in the Eastern Caribbean Sea" and
Song of the Shank they are figured into the novel. He also discusses how his travels on the African continent shaped his creation of a fictional island called Edgemere, a place that is central to the novel’s setting and construction of place. As for music, Allen notes that he avoided listening to any recordings of Blind Tom’s compositions because he wanted to use his imagination to create his own image of what Tom’s music might have sounded like to a listener of Tom’s area. On the novel’s acknowledgement page, Allen mentions some of the wide-ranging musical influences that shaped his writing, including the Malian