by Colin Cotterill
bookshelves: paper-read, hardback, one-penny-wonder, published-2011, thailand, mystery-thriller, autumn-2015, amusing, tongue-firmly-in-cheek, cosy, journalism, hippy-dippy-trippy-trash, upbeat, series, palate-cleanser, flippancy, first-in-series Read from January 20 to September 30, 2015 Descr...
Book 1 in the Jimm Juree seriesThis delightful first entry into a new series is set in southern Thailand and focuses on Jimm Juree, an eccentric 34 year old woman, who desperately wants to become a senior crime reporter. In a public oration course in college, Jimm has studied the speaking style of P...
How can one not love a book with such a title...I really adore this inventive and imaginative writer who has opened my eyes up to SE Asia with quirky, interesting characters. Fab
The Book Report: Jimm Juree, female crime reporter/editrix in waiting, leaves heavily urban and crime-ridden Chiang Mai, Thailand (ideal for her chosen trade, eh?), when her scatty, pre-dementia-sufferer mother (called "Mair" which means Mama throughout the book) decides to sell the family home and ...
Page 15 and I'm already loving it. I'll miss Dr. Siri, but this has much potential! Many laughs-outloud. And the Dubya gaffes as the headers for each chapter are much funnier now that he is out of office.
This is an interesting little cozy set in Thailand. The quirky family reminds me a lot of the Meg Langslow Mysteries by Donna Andrews. There are two mysteries in this story - who killed the abbot and how did the couple in the VW Kombi die. Jimm Juree, a Thai crime reporter who has moved with her fam...
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