07-05-2011, 11:48 PM | #1 | |
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Fun New Mystery Series Set In Thailand
It's called "Killed at the Whim of a Hat" by Colin Cotterill. I got an ARC to review, and I really, really enjoyed it. It was one of those books that I didn't want to put down once I started. I'll definitely be getting the next one in the series and I'm going to check out the author's other books.
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Out of family loyalty, Jimm moves to southern rural Thailand to accompany her mother who may or may not be losing her mind. She's a city girl, who gave up a promising career as a crime reporter to help her mother try to make a go of a beach resort she unexpectedly bought. This isn't one of those stories with a hotel filled with quirky guests; they rarely have a guest. She describes where they now live: "We moved to a village surrounded by coconut groves called Marprao. That means "coconut". We're in the middle of a bay called "Glang Ow", which means "middle of the bay", and our nearest small town is at the mouth of a river. It's called Pak Nam. I probably don't need to translate that one for you." ...... "The most wonderful, if sometimes the most creepiest of my mother's [Mair's] traits was that she never seemed to be fazed by anything. She would greet even the most horrific moments, tragedies and accidents alike, with the same sliver-lipped smile. Her pretty eyes would sparkle and there'd be a barely perceptible shake of her head. I'd often imagined her going down on the Titanic, Leo DiCaprio splashing and sputtering beside her, and Mair's enigmatic smile sliding slowly beneath the surface of the icy water. She was wearing her Titanic smile there at our kitchen table and I knew it masked something terrible." ...... "I needed that moment. I'd seen it often in the cinema. The weathered old cop, mired in a case of unspeakable horror, drops everything and takes his rifle and his case files off to a cabin deep in the woods where nature has lain unchanged for thousands of years. And after emerging from a week-long affair with a case of rye, the answer comes to him. "It was the twin brother suffering from amnesia that done it." That was the moment of clarity I craved. I called to the trees, to the ferns, to the god of polystyrene for an answer. The cell phone in my back pocket rang. I was impressed. Mother nature had gone high tech." |
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07-06-2011, 01:14 AM | #2 |
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Sounds really interesting -- I'll be on the lookout for it -- thanks!
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07-06-2011, 05:30 AM | #3 |
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He also writes the great Dr Siri series set in Laos. Dr Siri is an elderly doctor who is called on to be the government pathologist and gets involved in solving murders.
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