Robert Thorogood
2 SeriesRobert Thorogood is an English crime fiction author and screenwriter, best known for creating the BBC 1 series Death in Paradise. He studied History at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was involved with the Footlights comedy troupe, serving as President in 1994. Thorogood has written scripts for the BBC, ITV, and independent film companies, with his first broadcast work being a Radio 4 play in 2011.
In "A Meditation on Murder," the first Death in Paradise novel by Robert Thorogood, Aslan Kennedy, leader of a spiritual retreat on Saint Marie, is found murdered in a locked room with only five other people present. One suspect has confessed, but Detective Inspector Richard Poole is convinced of their innocence despite the seemingly open-and-shut case. Frustrated by uncooperative witnesses more interested in his 'aura' than alibis, DI Poole remains determined to uncover the truth. He meticulously investigates, certain that the real killer is still at large.
