Killed At The Whim Of A Hat by Colin Cotterill Book oversized Paperback
Killed at the Whim of a HatBook by Colin CotterillPaperback2011First U.S. EditionFormer Library bookPurchased at Friends of zthe Library book fair.Some minimum shelfwear, slight yellowing of pages from ageWithdrawn stamp inside front coverPlease see the photosFirst Book of recent seriesSet in present day rural Thailand, Cotterill is as sharp & witty, yet more engaging and charming, than ever before. 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. 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. 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,