Shangri-La It may be used in this context alongside other mythical and famous examples of somewhat similar metaphors such as El Dorado, The Fountain of Youth, and The Holy Grail. Shangri-La Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon" by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. In the novel, the people who live at Shangri-La
Death in Paradise (novel) but Jesse shields himself with Finn's body and Norris accidentally kills him. Jesse then draws his weapon and kills Norris. A final significant difference is that Suitcase Simpson is shot in the head during the standoff with Snyder. The film ends with Suitcase in a coma. Death in Paradise (novel) Death in Paradise is a crime novel by Robert B. Parker, the third in his Jesse Stone series. It was made into a film in 2006. The third Jesse Stone novel finds Chief Stone investigating the death of a teenage girl after her body washes up on shore. While searching