Killed at the Whim of a Hat
the first in the outrageous crime series from the author of the Dr Siri novels
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- 35,00 kr
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- 35,00 kr
Utgivarens beskrivning
'A compassionate and funny crime mystery, just a bit dark around the edges, and well wise to the ways of the world' Euro Crime
When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she's convinced her career is over. Her journalism will surely dwindle to reports on the annual monsoon-induced floods, for what crimes could possibly happen in such an out-of-the-way place?
A local palm oil plantation owner and his worker are excavating a well. They dig down six feet and hit metal. It turns out to be the roof of an old Volkswagen combi, which, once unearthed, is found to contain two skeletons - one of them wearing a hat.
A monk is murdered in Lang Suan, the nearest town. There is apparently no motive for the killing and no suspects are found. But there are odd connections between this killing and several others. Suddenly Jimm's new life becomes somewhat more promising - and a great deal more dangerous.
READERS ARE LOVING THE FIRST IN THE JIMM JUREE SERIES:
'Witty and entertaining' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'A ripping good whodunnit' ⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Brilliant' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Pure reading pleasure' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Cotterill's excellent first in a new series, 34-year-old Jimm Juree, who's poised to become only the second female senior crime reporter in all of Thailand, has her professional ambitions dashed when her eccentric mother abruptly sells the family home and business in Chiang Mai in the north of the country. Juree must join her relatives in an obscure southern province, where she seizes the opportunity to exercise her atrophied journalism skills after two human skeletons are found in a buried Volkswagen van. With the help of her grandfather, a former policeman forced off the job for his excessive honesty, Juree persistently probes the story behind the grisly discovery as well as the truth behind a more recent crime. Cotterill (The Coroner's Lunch and six other mysteries featuring Laotian coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun) combines a wry narrative voice with an appealing picture of a world unfamiliar to most Americans.
