Death in Paradise (TV series) in the end, he decides to remain on the island. This format was subverted in the sixth series, when the two-part storyline in the fifth and sixth episodes saw the team travel to London to follow up on a current case, resulting in then-lead detective Humphrey Goodman deciding to remain to be with his new girlfriend; D.I. Jack Mooney travelled back to Saint-Marie, initially as a holiday, but decided to remain as the new detective inspector of the island in the series finale. "Death in Paradise" is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, described in Episode 3.3
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