killed at the whim of a hat by colin cotterill

After two more years of study in child abuse issues, and one more stint in Phuket, he moved on to ECPAT, an international organization combating child prostitution and pornography.

Ten years ago, Colin became involved in child protection in the region and set up an NGO in Phuket which he ran for the first two years. He spent several years in Laos, initially with UNESCO and wrote and produced a forty-programme language teaching series English By Accident, for Thai national television. Colin has taught and trained teachers in Thailand and on the Burmese border. But the greater part of his latter years has been spent in Southeast Asia. He worked as a Physical Education instructor in Israel, a primary school teacher in Australia, a counselor for educationally handicapped adults in the US, and a university lecturer in Japan. And if Jimm is to make the most of this opportunity, and unravel the mysteries that underlie these inexplicable events, it will take luck, perseverance, and the help of her entire family.Ĭolin Cotterill was born in London and trained as a teacher and set off on a world tour that didn't ever come to an end. Suddenly Jimm’s new life becomes somewhat more promising-and a lot more deadly. Shortly thereafter an abbot at a local Buddhist temple is viciously murdered, with the temple’s monk and nun the only suspects. So when a van containing the skeletal remains of two hippies, one of them wearing a hat, is inexplicably unearthed in a local farmer’s field, Jimm is thrilled. When Jimm 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. Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family-a mother who might be drifting mentally a grandfather-a retired cop-who rarely talks a younger brother obsessed with body-building, and a transgendered, former beauty pageant queen, former older brother. Set in present day rural Thailand, Cotterill is as sharp and witty, yet more engaging and charming, than ever before. Now, with this new series, Cotterill is poised to break into the mainstream.

With worldwide critical acclaim, Colin Cotterill is one of the most highly regarded “cult favorite” crime writers today.

Killed at the whim of a hat by colin cotterill