

He spent several years in Laos, initially with UNESCO and wrote and produced a forty-programme language teaching series English By Accident, for Thai national television. Colin has taught and trained teachers in Thailand and on the Burmese border. But the greater part of his latter years has been spent in Southeast Asia. He worked as a Physical Education instructor in Israel, a primary school teacher in Australia, a counselor for educationally handicapped adults in the US, and a university lecturer in Japan. Suddenly Jimm's new life becomes somewhat more promising - and a great deal more dangerous.Colin Cotterill was born in London and trained as a teacher and set off on a world tour that didn't ever come to an end. But there are odd connections between this killing and several others. There is apparently no motive for the killing and no suspects are found.

A monk is murdered in Lang Suan, the nearest town. It turns out to be the roof of an old Volkswagen combi, which, once unearthed, is found to contain two skeletons - one of them wearing a hat. A local palm oil plantation owner and his worker are excavating a well. Her journalism will surely dwindle to reports on the annual monsoon-induced floods, for what crimes could possibly happen in such an out-of-the-way place? Answer: plenty. When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she's convinced her career is over. It turns out to be the roof of an old Volkswagen combi, which, once unearthed, is found to.

