- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Jane Rackham
Life would be so much easier for us if everyone just confessed to their crime, the local coppers on Saint Marie reckon after an attractive young woman walks into the station announcing nervously she’s shot her husband dead.
Detective Richard Poole (who still hasn’t so much as loosened his tie) isn’t convinced by her story and he’s like a terrier with a dead rat when it comes to a mysterious murder – he just won’t let it go. The whodunnit and why aspects of the plot are so flimsy that there’s really no need for the Miss Marple-style denouement; you’ll have guessed the outcome half an hour earlier. But so what? This isn’t meant to be a gritty or realistic crime drama. Instead it’s rather like Midsomer Murders: a light-hearted, engaging bit of entertainment, but in a Bounty-advert setting.
About this programme
4/8. Holiday-maker Megan Talbot confesses to shooting dead her husband, but puzzlingly there isn't a body - and without a victim, Richard has little to go on, insisting nothing is definite without hard evidence. But then a local boat crew fish a corpse out of the sea, with two gunshot wounds to the head - just as Megan said. Miranda Raison (Sugartown) and Neil Stuke (Silk) guest star in the Caribbean crime drama, with Ben Miller and Sara Martins.
Cast and crew
Cast
- DI Richard Poole
- Ben Miller
- Camille Bordey
- Sara Martins
- Dwayne Myers
- Danny John-Jules
- Fidel Best
- Gary Carr
- Megan Talbot
- Miranda Raison
- Astrid Knight
- Emma Fielding
- Patrick Knight
- Derek Riddell
- Lucas Talbot
- Neil Stuke
- Catherine
- Elizabeth Bourgine
- Greg
- Chris Tummings
- Pierre
- Stany Coppet
Crew
- Director
- Roger Goldby
- Producer
- Matthew Bird
- Writer
- James Payne
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