Episode 3

This is about a man that is killed in a hotel that his brother Elliot and his wife Linda own. Charlie Taylor the man killed had not seen his brother Elliot in 25 years. It appears to be a burglary. His room is messed up, clothes are out of the draws and more.

This episode has 2 more things they focus on. One is DI Goodman the cop is in love with Martha. She visits him and has little time to spend with her because of his murder investigation and she is only there temporarily.

JP is having trouble with his wife Rosie. They argued for the first time since marriage, tried to talk about why they argued etc. Dwayne Myers is a cop and gives JP advice about women which is negative most of the time. Dwayne is a womanizer and flirt.

The end was disappointing to me. Goodman does not have his meeting with suspects as usual and would point out the killer. This time he confronted the killer and him and Florence showed too much sympathy for the killer who was not arrested publicly like all the other episodes and taken away by JP and Dwayne.. Also Elliot Taylor/Jason Hughes who was a cop Ben Jones in "Midsomer Murders" uses "Christ" name as a swearing word which I am totally against as a Christian.

As an aside I do love the series "Death in Paradise". The cast are funny and nice and the area where it is filmed is beautiful and colorful with bright colored outdoor markets and ocean scenes. Catherine, Camille's mother who owns a bar and restaurant is alway polite, helpful and funny.

Humphrey takes Martha for a romantic weekend at the fabulous Hotel Cecile, but no sooner are they there, Humphrey is drawn into a case of mirder.

I have to say I'm pretty much in agreement with several of my fellow reviewers here, at best this is a distinctly average episode, it's one of those that's sadly forgettable, leaving virtually no impact on the viewer.

The story is quite a bland one, unfortunately despite being well acted and nicely filmed, it's quite boring.

I really liked Angela Bruce, who played Ernestine Grey, I also thought Jason Hughes was pretty good, sadly Mark Powley was woefully underused.

The solution didn't really work for me, too tenuous.

Mixed bag, 6/10.