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Who do you tell when you wake up to find a severed head on your patch of beach? When Jimm Juree quits the city for a Thai fishing village, she's convinced her career as a crime reporter is over. But stuff happens - and it usually happens to her. With her former cop grandfather as back up and the rest of their dysfunctional family in tow, she sets out to discover how the poor fellow ended up where he did - and why. 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. Airport hostages and hand grenades, monkeys and naked policemen - once more the sublime and the ridiculous clash in a remote part of southern Thailand. 'among the most distinctive and darkly engaging on the current crime fiction scene' Good Book Guide. Colin Cotterill was born in London. He has taught in Australia, the USA and Japan and lived for many years in Laos where he worked for nongovernmental social service organizations. He now writes full-time and lives in Chumphone, Thailand. He has been short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger and has won the CWA Dagger in the Library.