Karen Marston (Death in Paradise)

Karen Marston (Jemima Rooper) is a villainess from "Murder from Above", the Season 7 premiere of Death in Paradise (airdate January 4, 2018). She was the daughter of Philip Marston, the owner of a chain of hotels, and became the managing director of her father's business.
In the episode's beginning, Philip was on the verge of getting married to his fiancee, Diane Smith (head of HR for Marston's company) when she fell from her hotel room balcony in what initially appeared to be a suicide. In the wake of Diane's death, Karen and her siblings, Pearl and Stephen, spoke fondly about their father's fiancee and expressed a belief that she'd been driven to suicide by a news article written about the child she'd given up in her youth.
Later on, though, it was revealed that Karen had been in conflict with Diane over her refusal to sign a pre-nupital agreement; a decision Philip accepted. When confronted by DI Jack Mooney and Florence Cassell, Karen claimed that her actions weren't personal and that she'd only asked Diane to sign the agreement to protect her father's company. When questioned further about her motivations, however, Karen became irritated with the detectives and threatened to sue them after revealing that their conversation was being recorded on her phone. Ultimately, though, Jack pieced together that Stephen had killed Diane, with Karen and Pearl acting as his accomplices.
Along with the rest of her siblings, Karen felt threatened by Diane's marriage to Philip, believing it would put an end to their life of leisure. In addition to refusing to sign the pre-nup, Diane was also intending to force Pearl to begin working in the family business and report Stephen for sexually harassing her. The villainous siblings conspired to kill Diane on the day before her and Philip's wedding, with Pearl luring Diane to Stephen's hotel room while Karen gave a speech outside. Diane was shoved off the balcony to her death by Stephen, with the Marston siblings' plot allowing them all to appear to have alibis for their soon-to-be stepmother's death.
A chart of the hotel rooms of the Marston siblings, however, allowed for Jack to realize that Diane hadn't fallen from her own balcony and that the three had colluded together to kill Diane. When Jack tried to gather the Marston family together to reveal the siblings' plan, Karen attempted to flee, only to be subdued by Florence and brought to the summation in handcuffs. After Jack revealed Karen's plot with her brother and sister to kill Diane, she was taken into custody along with Pearl and Stephen.
Category:2010s
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Braided Hairstyle
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Greedy
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Indirect
Category:Rich
Category:Sibling
Category:Spoiled
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested