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
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