In addition to the human characters, a recurring animal character is "Harry", a lizard who lives at the Detective Inspector's bungalow. He appears in almost every episode and acts as a sounding board for the Detective Inspector to discuss the status of the current case and his life experiences. Harry is CGI generated. [23] Production [ edit ] The original team: Left-to-right: Sara Martins, Danny John-Jules, Gary Carr and Ben Miller Deshaies' church is right next to the fictional "Honoré police station". View of the Presbytery at Deshaies (Guadeloupe, c.1850s), which serves as the police station in the TV series "Death in Paradise". In 2022, the highest homicide rate among 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries surveyed was in Jamaica, with around 52.2 murders committed per 100,000 inhabitants. Venezuela came in second, with a homicide rate of 40.4, while Honduras ranked fourth, with 35.8. In the same year, the lowest rate was recorded in Chile, with a homicide rate of 4.6 per 100,000 inhabitants. Reprising their roles are series regulars Ralf Little as D.I. Neville Parker, Josephine Jobert as D.S Florence Cassell, Don Warrington as Commissioner Selwyn Patterson, Tahj Miles as Officer Marlon Pryce and Elizabeth Bourgine as Mayor Catherine Bordey. At the end of the tenth anniversary series, which averaged nearly nine million viewers, fans saw JP leave Saint Marie, trainee officer Marlon Pryce become a permanent member of the team, and Neville on the cusp of revealing his true feelings for Florence, leaving audiences on the edge of their seats. Series 6 (2017) has been the most-watched so far, averaging 9.1 million viewers. The series premiere, "Erupting in Murder", is the most-watched episode of the show to date with 9.81 million viewers. Based on consolidated figures, each episode of Series 6 was the most-watched programme of the day and in the top four of the week. [ citation needed]

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The golden sands, verdant hills, and crystalline waters of the Caribbean Sea have called to authors since the age of piracy ended. Indeed, one of the first works set there, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, was about that most Caribbean of occupations. Following Stevenson’s path, the greats ( Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream), the near-greats ( Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana; James Michener, Caribbean), the comic ( Herman Wouk, Don’t Stop the Carnival; Carl Hiaasen, Bad Monkey), and the commercial ( Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die and Dr. No) of the literary world have set their works on its shores. In January 2022, in the fourth episode of series 11, Jobert left the show for good after her character left the island. Her departure had not been previously announced. [34] Reception [ edit ] Viewing figures [ edit ]Honoré, the name of the main town, is a reference to St Honoré, the setting of A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie. The town has a leisure/commercial marina, market, bars and restaurants as well as the police station. The neighbouring town to Honoré is named as Port Royal. Saint Marie's main economic ties are to Guadeloupe, the UK and France. The island's main religions are Catholicism and Voodoo, with several religious festivals featuring in the programme, including the Saint Ursula Festival (in reality, a major festival of the Virgin Islands) and some Voodoo festivals. [ citation needed] Other locations [ edit ] So please, please, please, Mr. Thorogood, I beg of you, keep writing more Death in Paradise novels, but only with the original cast! I want Richard, Camille, Fidel and Dwayne to live on, solving impossible mysteries in the Caribbean, with that uptight, brilliant detective forever unappreciative of its beauty. Five out of five stars.

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About Series 1 | Death in Paradise | Alibi Channel". Alibi.uktv.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015 . Retrieved 30 March 2015. Hit BBC Drama Beyond Paradise to return for second series and Christmas Special". bbc.co.uk. 7 April 2023 . Retrieved 21 April 2023. Having watched the series, I ‘knew’ what the characters and locations looked like, which added to my enjoyment. Jason Rafiel: Yeah, yeah! That rings a bell... I think that's what she said - something like that anyway. How do you know that? Death in Paradise is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, described in Episode 3.3 as a "pretty island" that is "situated in the Eastern Caribbean Sea." In episode 4.5, it is mentioned that Martinique is "a good 70 miles." Saint Marie is "one-tenth the size of its north-west neighbour Guadeloupe"; this would make Saint Marie about 63 square miles (160km 2) in size. Saint Marie is a British Overseas Territory, but about 30% of its people are French, due to previous history, with the language still widely spoken.Robert wrote for many years - selling scripts to the BBC, ITV and independent film companies - but before 2011 the only script of his that was actually broadcast was a Radio 4 afternoon play called From Abstraction about the life of Paul Wolfskehl. Murder In The Caribbean by Robert Thorogood is a marvellous, light hearted, gripping, contemporary murder mystery. It is the fourth book in the Death In Paradise series but can be read as a stand-alone. Mystery writers have also had their protagonists living on or visiting the islands of the Southern Sea. One of the first to do this was also one of the greats of the genre— Agatha Christie in A Caribbean Mystery.

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The new series of Death in Paradise will air on BBC One at 9pm on Thursdays, starting on January 7 2016. Jason Rafiel: It wasn't my idea, and the person who had it - the idea, I mean - is a little old lady who knits and wears lace. She also has a mind like a bacon slicer. According to a Radio Times article in 2018, "From Australia to Russia to India, stretching across 236 territories, this British crime comedy-drama has become a global phenomenon." [38] Critical response [ edit ] Violence limits people’s choices, threatens their physical integrity, and disrupts their daily lives,” said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark at the report’s launch.

Smith, Rebecca (14 January 2004). "Death in Paradise, episode one, review". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 30 March 2015. Worse still, they soon realise this is only the beginning. They’ve got to catch the killer before there's another death in paradise…