#death in paradise books

[mrsometimes11]

Been a fan of Death in Paradise for a while, but only really just beginning to dip my toe into the fandom. Was wondering what the general opinion was on the books?

My opinion, they are a good addition to the series, and nice to see a little more of the original team, but some of the characterizations seem a little off. The murders are first-rate, and it seems odd to be saying this as they're all written by Robert Thorogood who created the TV series, but it seems like there's a lot more tension between the team in the books that in the show.

Take Richard and Camille, in the show, while they often disagree, it always made plain that underneath it all they like, perhaps more than like, each other. But in the books, reading Richard's internal monologue, it often seems like, though he respects her as a detective and colleague, Richard actively dislikes Camille as a person. I guess so much of what we perceive as their relationship comes from the chemistry between the actors, which is of course lost in the written word.

For all, that the books to include my favourite exchange in the entire series, in which Richard asks the team how they'd go about killing him, and slowly becomes more and more horrified by Dwayne's detailed response.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, what do you folks think?

[yagami-raito-kun]

Reunion Chapter 11 is done.

I knew I was going to have a hard time writing a note on this one, but man. This series has been a constant in my life through nine years and multiple earth-shattering life changes, and I'm so proud to have finally seen it to the end. But all the same...man. I don't know what to say.

I recently rediscovered my plans from 2015 for a oneshot prequel from Roger's POV, so this may not entirely be the end of the road. But as far as Light and Near's ongoing adventures go, I think this is the proper place to say goodbye. Thank you to everyone who has followed these stories, whether you've been reading them from the start or just discovered them today. Thank you for the comments, the fanart, the shitposts, the playlists, the cosplays, the TV Tropes entries, and the million other little signs of love you've shown my emotionally constipated fictional sons. Even if we've never spoken, I appreciate it all more than you know.

I hope this ending is every bit as satisfying to you as writing it felt for me. It's been an incredible ride.

Chapter Summary: "Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light." ~~John Milton, Paradise Lost

read it on ff.net || read it on AO3

[honeylemonbutte]

Rules: Make a poll of your favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

tagged by @grapecaseschoices Thank you! I started thinking of my favorite female characters and then I couldn't stop. I tried not to put too many obscure women, but some of these ladies I just can't leave out (I did actually weed out most of the more niche ladies and put them in the tags)

tagging: @littlemissbumblebee, @alexeizzo, @agentark, @thisghosts-obsessions-again, @beatrizamante, @renru

please tell me your favorite girls in poll format

[rowanisawriter]

there is banter. And sexual tension between gabriel and satan in paradise lost i fear

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (7-13 Apr 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 If This Is As Far As We Go (BeauRadley) - 124K, stucky no-powers AU - after a year of being phenomenal hookup buddies, bucky ends their arrangement & throws steve into a tailspin - slow burn, angsty, oblivious steve slowly realizing his true feelings, good supporting cast

😊 Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid (Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert) - cute graphic novel about art students forming a softball team to exploit a financial aid loophole

😍 Death in the Spires (KJ Charles, author; Tom Lawrence, narrator) - historical murder mystery set in 1905 Oxford - another KJC absolute banger: incredible sense of place, fantastic characters, perfectly done 'whodunnit' tension and a HIGHLY SATISFACTORY resolution. Loved every word

💖💖 +76K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The Man, the Myth, the Legend (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: gen, 2.9K - Holster's beatboxing skills brings all the a capella groups to the Haus - a short, fun, funny, outsider POV fic

Say it louder for the people in the back (redhook) - MCU: shrinkyclinks, 14K - reread, forever fave - sometimes you just get a yearning to reread the best glory hole fic ever written

In Focus (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: zimbits, 6K - Jack's photography eye knows what's up before his conscious brain does

Entering Orbit (museaway) - Star Trek AOS: spirk, 30K - good post-AOS canon-divergent fic where Jim goes home to Iowa to escape the press & Spock joins him

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Hot Ones - Conan O'Brien

QI - series S, ep 13

Game Changer - s6, e5 {Bingoception}

Um, Actually - s9, e4

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Dawn of Justice" (s21, e14)

D20: Adventuring Party - "We're Running on 200%" (s16, e14)

Death In Paradise - s11, e4-8; s12 e0-8, s13 e0-8

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Working - How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #10: Of the Reaching Green

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep10 "Of the Reaching Green"

Short Wave - How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball

Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses

⭐ Armchair Expert - Anna Kendrick [Rerelease from 1/9/23]

Today, Explained - Is college still worth it?

The Sporkful - Jewish Food Is More Than Matzoh Balls

WikiHole - BEYONCÉ (with Zoë Chao, Nat Faxon and Poppy Liu)

⭐ All Songs Considered - Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic

In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 2: Putting my theory to the test

Dinner’s on Me - Orville Peck

⭐ Switched on Pop - Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery

⭐ 99% Invisible #577 - The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons

⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Ada Limón

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Brown Mountain Lights

Short Wave - The Order Your Siblings Were Born in May Play a Role in Identity and Sexuality

⭐ Code Switch - How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

⭐ Decoder Ring - Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

⭐ Imaginary Worlds - African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #11: Promises Promises

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep11 "Promises Promises"

What Next: TBD - Does Google Suck Now?

Short Wave - What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water

Code Switch - Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Atlas Obscura Live: Two Places And A Lie

Dear Prudence - I Lost a Lot of Weight and Now I Enjoy Being a Mean Girl. Help!

It's Been a Minute - The car culture wars; plus, the problem with child stars

Endless Thread - RIP Lil Miquela

Shedunnit - You Probably Imagined It!

Armchair Expert - John Cena

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - [One Shot] A County Affair: Prologue

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting Bonnie Raitt

Lowrider Oldies

Huge House Anthems

Djo

Classic Soul BBQ

A LA SALA [Khruangbin] {2024}

Presenting Khruangbin

Happy Beats

'80s One-Hit Wonders

Feel-Good Classic Rock

[hobis-hope94]

if you love father brown, i’m recommending a few tv series and books that you might love after watching father brown:

1): Death in Paradise -BBC tv series. Really good Murder mystery series, set in the Caribbean. Very good, highly recommend.

2): The Thursday Murder Club book series -Richard Osman, really clever stories and funny and great characters with great murders.

3): Shakespeare and Hathaway -BBC TV day time crime drama. Really good series, cosy much like father brown. All the characters are named after Shakespeare characters, clever murders, fab characters too.

[ravenbro0k]

I have a list of books im either currently reading or going to read

The picture of Dorian gray - oscar Wilde

The death of the gods - Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Ulysses - James Joyce

The diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank (obviously)

The portrait of the artist as a young man - James Joyce

Beowulf - no clue

Paradise lost - John Milton

The odyssey - Homer

The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio

Dubliners - James Joyce

Iliad - no clue

Resurrection of gods - Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Peter and Alexis - Dmitry Merezhkovsky

The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway

[bitchbrisket]

[doctorfriend79]

Ben Miller

[verge-of-collapse]

Remembering

I hope it was gentle, warm, like going home

I hope it came peacefully for the nights of winter eavesdrop

I wish I could ask you what your eyes are now seeing

What your soul is now experiencing

What the musk smells like

What the angels embrace feels like

How the clothes of Paradise fit

How is the home in Paradise looks like

In your new home, who came to greet you? your father? your mother? your loved ones?

I wish I saw you before they buried you

I pray that Allah allows me to join you

[torgawl]

no because if joshua is alive even if clive died he did it fullfiling his job as his shield do you guys understand 😩😩😩😩

[mrsometimes11]

I've talked about them here before, and generally the reaction was surprise that they exist, but I feel the need to info-dump about the Death in Paradise novels again, specifically the 3rd one (which I'm currently re-reading) 'Death Knocks Twice'

SPOILERS AHEAD

(also trigger warning for SA, suicide, and child-abuse)

This is by far the darkest of the books, which in turn tend to be darker than the show.

For example, the first victim, Freddie, was an abusive alcoholic who hit his wife, who killed herself,vand r*ped his 12 year old daughter, fathering a son by her. He is killed by the daughter and his son/grandson (deserved honestly), and the son/grandson later goes on to kill the daughter (not deserved).

Yep, you read that right, bet you weren't expecting incest and SA in a book about everyone's favourite cozy murder-mystery show set on a tropical island.

But, the thing is, it's really very written, and shocking as some of the stuff is, it's not especially gratuitous. For one thing, the use of misdirects are amazing, we are given misleading ages for the kids early on (the daughter is originally stated to be 28 rather than 30), and a lot of important information is revealed subtly as the story progresses (the daughter's age courtesy of Nanny Rosie), barely registering until it all adds up.

And yet, despite how dark it gets, it still feels like a death in paradise mystery, the Commissioner is humourously unconcerned by the murder and more interested in a bootleg rum seller, who ends up being connected to the murder, Richard is sidetracked by illegal vans, which are also connected, and the whole thing is filled with a surprising amount of Richard/Camille shipping fodder.

Anyway, it's just bizarre, and I felt I needed to share that.

[laniidae-passerine]

also fucking hilarious how they spent basically two seasons going “Neville is in love with Florence! will he ever confess or will it be another doomed love story of right person, wrong time?” and then the answer to that question was “yeah he will confess to her but she doesn’t like him back” GIRL WHY’D YOU DO HIM LIKE THAT

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

something that strikes me about pw's 'gray' is just how. religious it is. it's very religious. religion plays such a subtle, omnipresent role in it. because of course it does.

[oceansdeeperinme]

[cloudbattrolls]

fun fact: that conversation with Lleios was the most difficult part of To Mould Me Man to write, that was the third version of it.

first one was a lot weaker, I didn't even specify exactly who was speaking (there was no visible presence), second one had Lleios appear but the conversation wasn't right tonally, and then I hit on the final version, with Tuuya seeing everyone whose lives they'd changed for the better...

...but Tuuya being Tuuya, that still wasn't enough on its own to make them keep living, because they are fully aware they've still done A Lot of Shit, Ozryel wasn't wrong about that lmao

Tuuya is unique among the swarms because they chose to be one, which is you know, fucking evil given what being one entails, but their ability to choose (and being the worm, instead of any of the others) is also what gives them a much greater ability to choose to be better, too