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The Killing of Polly Carter by Robert Thorogood (view source)
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I'm a fan of old-school murder mysteries…think [[:Category:Agatha ChrisiteChristie|Agatha Christie]], think [[:Category:Marjory Allingham|Majory Allingham]], Dorothy Sayers… These are stories as games. Usually on the very edge of plausibility, gruesomeness kept to a minimum, police procedure trodden all over in hobnailed enthusiasm of insight and flashes of inspiration. So it follows that I enjoy TV series in the same vein: Midsommer Murders, Poirot… and Death in Paradise. It was because my enjoyment of the series was known that ''The Killing of Polly Carter'' was sent my way.
For those who don't know the series – and haven't come across Thorogood's books (this is the second) – the Paradise in question is the Caribbean Island of Saint Marie. It is everything a certain type of Brit would want a Caribbean island to be: hot, steamy, sort of French-African in atmosphere, but an outpost of the British Commonwealth such that for some reason we're responsible for policing it. Ok, it's got a murder rate that might put you off visiting, but generally the murderers aren't locals. So that's alright then.