An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death in Paradise, featuring on screen favourite detective, DI Richard Poole. Supermodel Polly Carter was famed for her looks and party girl lifestyle. Now she is dead, apparently having thrown herself from the clifftop near her home on the island of Saint Marie. Those who knew her say Polly would never have killed herself and when he is called in to investigate, DI Richard Poole is inclined to agree there is more to Polly death than meets the eye. Already fighting a losing battle against the intense summer heat of the Caribbean, Richard now faces fresh adversaries: a stream of alibis, a host of conflicting motives, and, worst of all, a visit from his mother. A frenzy which would surely allow a murderer to slip away unnotice. yet Richard is certain that the guilty party is still on the island. As his team closes in on Polly household, Richard becomes convinced that the model death was an inside job. And he's determined to prove who planned the killing of Polly Carter <\p>
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Robert Thorogood is the creator of the hit BBC One TV series Death in Paradise. He was born in Colchester, Essex, in 1972. When he was 10 years old, he read his first proper novel Agatha Christie Peril at End House and he has been in love with the genre ever since. <\p>
An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death in Paradise, featuring on screen favourite detective, DI Richard Poole. Supermodel Polly Carter was famed for her looks and party girl lifestyle. Now she is dead, apparently having thrown herself from the clifftop near her home on the island of Saint Marie. Those who knew her say Polly would never have killed herself and when he is called in to investigate, DI Richard Poole is inclined to agree there is more to Polly death than meets the eye. Already fighting a losing battle against the intense summer heat of the Caribbean, Richard now faces fresh adversaries: a stream of alibis, a host of conflicting motives, and, worst of all, a visit from his mother. A frenzy which would surely allow a murderer to slip away unnotice. yet Richard is certain that the guilty party is still on the island. As his team closes in on Polly household, Richard becomes convinced that the model death was an inside job. And he's determined to prove who planned the killing of Polly Carter <\p>
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