Killed at the Whim of a Hat ebook | Colin Cotterill | 9781849167833

When Jimm Juree is forced to quit the city for a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she's convinced her career as a crime reporter is over. After all, what crimes could possibly take place in such an out-of-the-way location. No sooner does she think this than two skeletons are found during the excavation of a well. They are sitting side by side in a rotting Volkswagen Kombi, and one of them, curiously, is wearing a hat. Then, shortly afterwards, a monk is murdered in the nearby town of Lang Suan. On top of bizarre connections between this killing and several others around the globe, where do the newly uncovered skeletons fit in. Suddenly Jimm's new life becomes more exciting, and, before long, a great deal more dangerous.

Colin Cotterill was born in London. He has taught in Australia, the USA and Japan and lived for many years in Laos where he worked for nongovernmental social service organizations. He now writes full-time and lives in Chumphone, Thailand. He has been short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger and has won the CWA Dagger in the Library.