Killed at the Whim of a Hat (Jimm Juree Mystery, #1)

by Colin Cotterill

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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? Answer: plenty. 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.
  • ISBN10 0312564538
  • ISBN13 9780312564537
  • Publish Date 19 July 2011 (first published 3 March 2011)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Minotaur Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 374
  • Language English