What made Elizabeth Berrington fly out to a idyllic Caribbean island for a 30 seconds role on Death in Paradise?
Berrington plays Diane Smith, due to marry wealthy Philip Marston, owner of a chain of hotels. Just before the ceremony she gets bad news of a past incident and then her body comes crashing down.
Everybody tells DI Jack Mooney that it is suicide. Marston's grown up children from his first wife do not like being questioned. Mooney is not sure that Smith meant to kill herself, something about the bride who only painted one fingernail gives him cause for concern.
Ardal O'Hanlon seems to have effortlessly stepped into the shoes of his predecessors. Mooney has enough quirks and craftiness about him with a touch of Columbo about him. As an older person, the writers do not have to worry too much of giving him a romance angle. However I get the feeling his daughter was found to be dull and superfluous, she has been dispatched to university off the island.