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Killed at the Whim of a Hat (2011)

di Colin Cotterill

Serie: Jimm Juree (1)

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Fiction. Mystery. Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family. When she is forced to follow her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she's convinced her career-maybe her life-is over. So when a van containing the skeletal remains of two hippies is inexplicably unearthed in a local farmer's field, Jimm is thrilled. Shortly thereafter an abbot at a local Buddhist temple is viciously murdered.Suddenly Jimm's new life becomes somewhat more promising-and a lot more deadly. And if Jimm is to unravel the inexplicable events, it will take luck, perseverance, and the help of her entire family.… (altro)
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Forced to relocate to rural Thailand with her eccentric family, crime reporter Jimm Juree fears that her career is over until the bodies of two hippies are discovered in a local farmer's field and a Buddhist abbot is murdered, a case that implicates a monk and a nun.

Jimm Juree is a feisty and persistent reporter who bends the rules to get information. Luckily she befriends a police detective who is also willing to bend the rules to help her. Her family, who she lives with, is quirky, amusing and unpredictable. Half of the story focused on the family’s activities and half focused on the murder investigation. It was an entertaining combination. ( )
  gaylebutz | Mar 23, 2023 |
This one was a lot of fun. If you're looking for a serious psychological thriller look elsewhere. Though there are two or three mysteries here the real interest to me was the setting and the cast of wacky characters thrown together by genetics and geography.

The snarky style, while mostly entertaining, sometimes went a bit overboard. For example, "I sat and watched the sea for a while. It was silver and languid like a lake of snot." (p.222) Compare Peter Heller in The River: "The water whispered along the hull, and it had a silver sheen that reminded Wynn of rayon."

First time for this author for me, and there will be more. ( )
  JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 |
Liked the beginning few pages. When our narrator whips in to explain that she can't keep up that writing style I was jarred and never got caught up again. The romance and the finding oneself in the slower paced countryside bits were my favorite. Not taken with this series, sticking with Dr. Siri. ( )
  Je9 | Aug 10, 2021 |
Lots of unexpected fun – interesting locale, fun likeable characters – overall cute, but it a totally enjoyable way. ( )
  Seafox | Jul 24, 2019 |
I received this book on GoodReads.

I enjoyed this new series by Colin Cotterill. It took me quite awhile to get interested in the story, but once it caught my interest I finished it very quickly. The humor is subtle and the characters very quirky. Sometimes I felt like the mystery (s), that were the base of the plot, were really secondary to the author's attempt to flesh out these new characters. That was alright with me because it makes me want to read the next book in the series to see what this group is up to next!

I enjoyed and laughed out loud at the George W. Bush quotes at the head of every chapter. And the clever way the author used one of his quotes to name this novel.

I give this 3.5 stars!! ( )
  Iambookish | Dec 14, 2016 |
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Families is where our nation finds hope,
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Old Mel hired one of Da's nephews--the slow-witted one with the dent in his forehead--to sink a well in his back acre.
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Acknowledgements: And before I go, I have been asked by the officers of the Pak Nam police station to point out that there are absolutely no homosexuals, latent or practising, employed in that establishment. I hope that's perfectly clear.
"Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat."

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Fiction. Mystery. Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family. When she is forced to follow her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she's convinced her career-maybe her life-is over. So when a van containing the skeletal remains of two hippies is inexplicably unearthed in a local farmer's field, Jimm is thrilled. Shortly thereafter an abbot at a local Buddhist temple is viciously murdered.Suddenly Jimm's new life becomes somewhat more promising-and a lot more deadly. And if Jimm is to unravel the inexplicable events, it will take luck, perseverance, and the help of her entire family.

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