When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to quit the city for a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she expects much in her life to change. Quiet will replace quick, and, surely, crime will give way to calm. There goes the career, then.
Not a chance. No sooner has she settled than a surprise discovery springs from a local well. Two skeletons: both wearing the signs of thirty years of decay, with one also wearing a hat. And, if this wasn’t uncommon enough, a monk is soon killed in a neighbouring town.
Who are the skeletons? Who murdered the monk? Is there a connection? Step forward Jimm Juree…
Not a chance. No sooner has she settled than a surprise discovery springs from a local well. Two skeletons: both wearing the signs of thirty years of decay, with one also wearing a hat. And, if this wasn’t uncommon enough, a monk is soon killed in a neighbouring town.
Who are the skeletons? Who murdered the monk? Is there a connection? Step forward Jimm Juree…
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Reviews
'The first of what promises to be an exotic, colourful crime series' Financial Times
'Cotterill's fiction has been compared to Alexander McCall Smith's… It is far more complex and perceptive' Independent
'The Jimm Juree series is off to at least as good a start as the Dr. Siri one was. It has the potential to be even better' Janet Maslin, New York Times
'Outstanding series debut… Cotterill understands people and writes subtle humour like a master' Library Journal