killed at the whim of a hat by colin cotterill

Twenty palms saved without crippling his spine. Oil palms took care of themselves if you watered them often and gave them manure treats once every three months. So, a well, a cheap Chinese pump, half a dozen sprinklers, and all he’d need to do was flick a switch. Mel had been lugging watering cans out there for two weeks and his back bones were starting to clack like mah-jong tiles.

The irrigation trenches his family had dug between the rows of oil palms didn’t extend to the rear fence and the new fronds were browning even before they fanned open. 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. BUSH, LACROSSE, WISCONSIN, 18 OCTOBER, 2000 “Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. 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. One of Library Journal's Best Mystery Books of 2011 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. The launch of a brand new series by the internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Coroner’s Lunch 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