![]() ![]() ![]() No doubt authors get tired of their series characters after a while and want to try something - or someone - new to write about. Separately, Jimm gets involved with the investigation surrounding the killing of an abbot, the body found wearing a very bright orange hat - "like the traffic cones" - with a red flower, and accompanied more ominously by "forty-six photos documenting the brutal murder of a peaceful man." The police, of course, are on top of things, saying that this was an accident, murder, or an act of nature … but the possibility of suicide cannot be ruled out. ![]() Determined to make an unofficial - and no doubt unwelcome - contribution to the story, she visits the scene and begins to take notes. ![]() Jimm misses her former life, and is cheered to read about the mysterious discovery of a van found buried under a palm tree plantation up north, the skeletal bodies of a driver and passenger included. Review: Set in present day Thailand, Colin Cotterill introduces a new (series?) character in Jimm Juree, a former crime reporter who has moved from the city with her Mother and siblings to help run the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restaurant along the country's remote southern coast, in Killed at the Whim of a Hat. ![]()
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