Death in Paradise (TV series) Richard Poole (Ben Miller) is assigned to investigate the murder of a British police officer on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie. After he successfully finds the murderer, he is reluctantly required by his supervisors to replace the victim and stay on as the detective inspector (DI) of the island, solving new cases as they appear, and being the object of many fish-out-of-water jokes. At the start of Series 3, Poole is killed and uncoordinated London detective Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) arrives to investigate the death of his strait-laced predecessor. He then stays in the job as chief investigator
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