Saint Marie (fictional island) 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 "one-tenth the size of its north-west neighbour Guadeloupe", which would make Saint Marie about in size. It is described in Episode 4.5 as being 70 miles from Martinique. The island is a British Overseas Territory, but was handed over to the British from the French only in the 1970s, so that
Death in Paradise (TV series) is "Sunday Shining" by Finley Quaye. In January 2015, an official soundtrack compiling 26 songs from the first four series of the show was released by the BBC. It contains original music for "Death in Paradise" and already extant tunes, though it does not include the theme music from the show. The creator of the show, Robert Thorogood, signed a three-book deal to write "Death in Paradise" novels featuring the original characters (D.I. Richard Poole, D.S. Camille Bordey, Officer Dwayne Myers, Sergeant Fidel Best and Comm. Selwyn Patterson). The first of these, "A Meditation on Murder (A Death in Paradise