Colin Cotterill: Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
Once a promising crime reporter in Chiang Mai, Jimm Juree moved with her rather eccentric family to a rural village on the coast of southern Thailand. Lamenting the derailing of her career, Jimm wakes up one morning to find a severed head on the beach in front of her family's ramshackle resort.

The local authorities aren't remotely interested in the case (perhaps ily, because darker motives are in play), which leaves Jimm, with her retired-cop grandfather as backup, to discover how the poor fellow ended up in that ay particular condition, on that beach, and why. Along the way, they uncover to he gruesome tales of piracy, slavery, violence, and murder, and Jimm again finds he by herself in the middle of a clash of the sublime and the ridiculous -- airport hostages, hand grenades, monkeys, naked policemen -- with murder in the balance.

Colin Cotterill: Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach. A Jimm Juree Mystery. Minotaur Books, ISBN: 9781250025180 (April, 2013), 324 p., $15.99.

Colin Cotterill: Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU FIND A SEVERED HEAD ON THE BEACH?
With her former cop grandfather as back up, crime reporter Jimm Juree sets out to discover how the poor fellow got there. On their journey they uncover gruesome tales of piracy, slavery, violence and murder, yet the authorities show no interest at all. Is it because the victims aren't Thai? Whatever the reason, Jimm and her team are going it alone.

Airport hostages and hand grenades, monkeys and naked policemen - once more the sublime and the ridiculous clash in the Gulf of Thailand.

Colin Cotterill: Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach. A Jimm Juree Investigation. Quercus, ISBN: 9780857387103 (February, 2013), 326 p., £7.99.

Colin Cotterill: Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
In rural Thailand, former crime reporter Jimm Juree must grapple with her quirky family, a mysterious mother and daughter on the lam and the small matter of a head on the beach...

When Jimm Juree's mother sold the family house and invested in a rundown 'holiday camp' at the southern end of Thailand on the Gulf of Siam, the family had little choice but to follow. Jimm Juree, who was well on her way to achieving her goal of becoming the primary crime reporter for the major daily newspaper in Chiang Mai, is less than thrilled to have lost her job as a reporter and to be stuck in the middle of nowhere where little of interest happens. So it is with mixed feelings that she greets the news that a head has washed up on the beach. It's tragic, of course, but this could be the sort of sensational murder that would get her a byline in a major daily and keep her toehold on her journalism career. Now all she has to do is find out who was murdered, and why.

Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach is the second Jimm Juree Mystery from Colin Cotterill.

Colin Cotterill: Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach. A Jimm Juree Mystery. Minotaur Books, ISBN: 9780312564544 (June, 2012), 324 p., $24.99.

Colin Cotterill: Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
When Jimm Juree is forced to quit the city for a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she's convinced her career as crime reporter is over. But stuff happens - and it usually happens to her.

Who do you tell when you wake up to find a severed head on your patch of beach? For Jimm Juree it means action. With her former cop grandfather as back up, she sets out to discover how the poor fellow ended up where he did - and why. On their journey throughout the Gulf of Thailand, the rest of their dysfunctional family in tow, they uncover gruesome tales of piracy and slavery, violence and murder. Are the authorities uninterested because they're involved, or because the victims aren't Thai? Whatever the reason, Jimm and her team are going it alone, their lives under threat.

Who exactly are those two elegant women in cabin three and why has the engine number of their car been filed away? Airport hostages and hand grenades monkeys and naked policemen - orves mor the sublime and the ridiculous clash ae the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restaurant.

Colin Cotterill: Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach. A Jimm Juree Investigation. Quercus, ISBN: 9780857387080 (March, 2012), 326 p., £16.99.