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Death in Paradise Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Episode 1
57 mins
Billionaire Philip Marston and his children are on the island for his marriage to Diane Smith but she falls from her hotel balcony the day before the wedding. Given a reminder of an indiscretion from her past suicide is presumed but Jack sees evidence to the contrary. Philip's daughters, bossy Karen and spoilt Pearl, had cause to dislike her, unlike their reasonable brother Stephen whilst the hotel manager is unusually uncooperative. Jack uncovers family secrets to solve the murder.
Episode 2
Episode 2
57 mins
A poker tournament is taking place on the island with a three million pound prize but one of the players, Bobby Rodriguez, is poisoned - seemingly through the cards, though none of the other contestants , including his wife Melanie, is affected. His closest rival, cocky young Ray Campbell, is the prime suspect until Jack discovers a pair of X-ray glasses, a poisoned cigar and a family secret.
Episode 3
Episode 3
58 mins
Thriller writer Frank O'Toole and his wife Valerie are entertaining his agent Larry South and researcher Gilly White at their island home when Frank's corpse is pulled from the sea, having apparently been stabbed whilst out swimming alone. Frank had argued with Larry over switching agents as his book sales were falling and Gilly admits to an affair with Frank, which was known to Valerie. Jack establishes that the killer used a boat, hired under an assumed name and that name leads to him solving the crime as well as playing Cupid for Dwayne.
Episode 4
Episode 4
58 mins
Faith healer Steadman King returns to the island with his wife Amelia after thirty-five years in America. During a healing session, his childhood friend, terminally ill Fabienne, is poisoned and dies. Steadman is the prime suspect, but none of the others from the congregation who drank from the same cup as Fabienne is harmed. Amelia tells Jack why Steadman was forced to leave America, but Jack reopens events from decades ago to arrive at his solution.
Episode 5
Episode 5
57 mins
The island is celebrating its Day of the Dead, which literally lives up to its name when Daisy Anderson, organizer of a charity auction at the local yacht club, is murdered after sending a frantic message to her husband Finn. She had had a brief affair with club member Adam Warner, about which Finn knew, and was filing for divorce, as well as discovering a fraud perpetrated by club treasurer Charlotte Hamilton. However all three have alibis. Jack is mystified by the appearance of a butterfly which should be in hibernation on Daisy's body but it gives him a clue to solving her murder.
Episode 6
Episode 6
58 mins
Daniel Friend is strangled at the spiritual retreat he ran with his wife Cressida, yet Cressida and the other three guests were all meditating at the time. Chief suspect is undercover journalist Bryan Williams, out to expose Daniel as a fraud whilst young medic Gabe Lee had issues with the victim, who apparently was violent towards his wife. A revelation of Daniel's criminal past, however, is the clue to solving the murder.
Episode 7
Episode 7
57 mins
Café owner and petty crook Eugene Jones is found dead and JP's old school-mate, bad boy Cordell Thomas, who worked for him confesses that he killed him during a fight. Jack, however, is not convinced, drawing attention to a peanut clutched in the dead man's fist. Valuables stolen from ex-con Charlie Blake are found at Eugene's house whilst Eugene's sister Celeste also had a grievance with him. Despite a confession from one of the suspects the peanut proves to be the clue to solving the murder.
Episode 8
Episode 8
58 mins
Reggae band Leon and the Ragers reform to play on the island but guitarist Billy Springer is found dead in a locked room having contacted Commissioner Patterson to give him information about the unsolved murder of his wife Jasmine thirty years earlier. Jasmine's disapproval of he husband's drunken life-style caused the group to split, leaving to the other three members being suspects in both murders. Jack works out which one, with only the clue of a bent, rusty fork to help him.
