The Jimm Juree series by Colin Cotterill

A great series I've left hanging in the wind (even though the first novel in the series, Killed at the Whim of a Hat, was totally awesome!), is the Jimm Juree mystery series by Colin Cotterill. I enjoyed it so much that I shared this one with my father who passed away before getting around to it. The book remains in his TBR pile in the living room and I see it every time I visit my stepmother. She's not a fiction reader and it will languish there until it is given away.

Here is the blurb for book one -

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, Jimm is thrilled. Shortly thereafter an abbot at a local Buddhist temple is viciously murdered, with the temple’s monk and nun the only suspects. Suddenly Jimm’s new life becomes somewhat more promising—and a lot more deadly. 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.

(1) Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (Jimm Juree, #2)

(2) The Axe Factor (Jimm Juree, #3)

(3) The Amok Runners (Jimm Juree, #0.6 prequel)

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