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    Death Knocks Twice

    Written by Robert Thorogood

    Narrated by Phil Fox

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    ‘For fans of Agatha Christie’ Mail on Sunday

    The new DI Richard Poole mystery

    Two dead bodies. A family of suspects. And one very disgruntled detective.

    Reluctantly stationed on the sweltering Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, Detective Inspector Richard Poole dreams of cold winds, drizzly rain and a pint in his local pub.

    Just as he is feeling as fed up as can be, a mysterious vagrant is found dead in the grounds of the historic Beaumont plantation. Immediately assumed to be suicide, DI Poole is not so convinced and determined to prove otherwise. Never mind that the only fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to the victim. Or that the room was locked from the inside.

    Before long, death knocks twice and a second body turns up. The hunt is on to solve the case – despite the best efforts of the enigmatic Beaumont family…

    Praise for Robert Thorogood:

    ‘Very funny and dark with great pace. I love Robert Thorogood’s writing’
    Peter James

    ‘This second DEATH IN PARADISE NOVEL is a gem’
    DAILY EXPRESS

    ‘Deftly entertaining … satisfyingly pushes all the requisite Agatha Christie-style buttons’
    Barry Forshaw, THE INDEPENDENT

    ‘For fans of Agatha Christie’
    MAIL ON SUNDAY

    ‘A treat’
    RADIO TIMES

    ‘This brilliantly crafted, hugely enjoyable and suitably goosebump-inducing novel is an utter delight from start to finish’
    HEAT

    ‘Plenty of red herrings and twists to keep readers guessing’ DAILY EXPRESS

    'Fans will enjoy returning to DI Richard Poole… just switch off and relax'
    LOVE READING

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJul 27, 2017
    ISBN9780263927313
    Author

    Robert Thorogood

    Robert Thorogood is an English screenwriter and novelist. He is the creator of the BBC One murder mystery series Death in Paradise.

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    • 4/5
      Ah, the Carribean. Sun, sea and, erm, dead bodies.Calling all Agatha Christie fans: this is a classic locked room mystery in which all the protagonists are gathered together at the end for the big reveal. Can the reader solve the mystery before the detective? Mmm, possibly. (I didn't.) If not you'll be sure to at least enjoy the drama as the pendulum swings from suspect to suspect.-- What's it about? --This is the third instalment in Robert Thorogood's entertaining 'Death in Paradise' series. Well, it's the third book anyway. I believe the TV series of the same name, which contains mostly the same characters, has completed three or four series of episodes now.The story begins when Lucy Beaumont, apparently a well-off young lady from a respectable family, reports a stalker to the police. As they follow her to the scene where her stalker was last spotted, shots are fired, and it won't surprise readers when the stalker is found dead in a murder poorly disguised as a suicide.What does surprise the police is that no-one in the Beaumont family recognises the man who has died on their property - or if they do, no-one is saying. Cue an investigation by DI Richard Poole's team into the lives of the Beaumont family and the mysterious "stalker". As Richard uncovers lie after lie he moves inexorably closer to the truth, but not before another body is found...-- What's it like? --Gently amusing. Very British. Full of secrets and family dramas.Readers familiar to the series will be unsurprised to learn that DI Richard Poole still hates the tropics and persists in wearing his dark woollen suit, even when it nearly gives him sunstroke, because That is What Detective Inspectors Wear. After all, as Richard grimly instructs his subordinate officer, Camille, if we don't follow the rules, chaos will ensue. Of course, despite his best efforts to run a "normal" investigation, "chaos" of a kind is unavoidable. Richard feels constantly hampered by island life, whether that obstruction is caused by the islanders slightly lax approach to vehicle taxation, his boss' insistence that he prioritise catching a rum bootlegger over investigating an actual murder, or the lack of crucial CCTV footage (caused by an iguana chewing through some computer wires). It's life, but not as DI Richard Poole likes it.-- What did I like? --I really enjoyed this classic mystery story. Each of the Beaumont family has something to hide, of course, but who was the killer? How did they exit a room locked from the inside? And why did they have to die?It's a tale of inheritance, madness and family friction peopled with the very British upper class characters and their seemingly endless ability to dissimulate. -- Typical quotes --On Richard's lack of racial prejudice:'This was mainly because Richard presumed that everyone was going to be a bitter disappointment to him before he'd even met them, but his team had always acknowledged that he was at least colour-blind in his misanthropy.'Richard's team investigates:'Dwayne entered looking like a cat who'd not only got the cream, but had also got his hands on the cow who supplied the cream.'-- Final thoughts --I thoroughly enjoyed this mystery and found all the revealing of secrets intriguing. I always find the typical upper class attitude of, "well, you're just a lowly policeman, you don't need to know this really pertinent fact about my family because I've decided it's not relevant," really helps to keep DI Poole's team working hard to understand motive, means and opportunity!I was a little surprised that in a story called 'Death knocks twice' it took a good 250 pages before death did, indeed, knock twice, but this didn't detract from the fun of the storytelling.I also really enjoyed the way all the threads were resolved by the end - and the Beaumont family unraveled!I continue to really enjoy the series and shall await book four with anticipation, assuming poor DI Richard Poole isn't released back to the mainland anytime soon!Cosy crime with a Caribbean twist.Many thanks to the author and publishers for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review and a place on the blog tour.