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Jimm Juree Case Files #8
Number Eight: Smelly Man
Number Smelly Man is the seventh in a new series of Colin Cotterill short stories featuring his female news reporter and detective, Jimm Juree. Fans of Jimm know her from the four novels where, with the help of the members of her strange family, she usually solves the crime. Move over Miss Marple, Jimm Juree does it for the 21st Century.
Who is trying to kill the smelly tramp? The tramp doesn't know, but he hires Jimm to find out. Jimm with her family and a friendly gay cop set to work on the mystery as only they can.
Who is trying to kill the smelly tramp? The tramp doesn't know, but he hires Jimm to find out. Jimm with her family and a friendly gay cop set to work on the mystery as only they can.
- GenresMystery
33 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 25, 2018
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Colin Cotterill
71 books1,016 followersColin 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. 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. But the greater part of his latter years has been spent in Southeast Asia. Colin has taught and trained teachers in Thailand and on the Burmese border. 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.
Ten years ago, Colin became involved in child protection in the region and set up an NGO in Phuket which he ran for the first two years. After two more years of study in child abuse issues, and one more stint in Phuket, he moved on to ECPAT, an international organization combating child prostitution and pornography. He established their training program for caregivers.
All the while, Colin continued with his two other passions; cartooning and writing. He contributed regular columns for the Bangkok Post but had little time to write. It wasn't until his work with trafficked children that he found himself sufficiently stimulated to put together his first novel, The Night Bastard (Suk's Editions. 2000).
The reaction to that first attempt was so positive that Colin decided to take time off and write full-time. Since October 2001 he has written nine more novels. Two of these are child-protection based: Evil in the Land Without (Asia Books December 03), and Pool and Its Role in Asian Communism (Asia Books, Dec 05). These were followed by The Coroner’s Lunch (Soho Press. Dec 04), Thirty Three Teeth (Aug 05), Disco for the Departed (Aug 06), Anarchy and Old Dogs (Aug 07), and Curse of the Pogo Stick (Aug 08), The Merry Misogynist (Aug 09), Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Aug 10) these last seven are set in Laos in the 1970’s.
On June 15, 2009 Colin Cotterill received the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library award for being "the author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to library users".
When the Lao books gained in popularity, Cotterill set up a project to send books to Lao children and sponsor trainee teachers. The Books for Laos programme elicits support from fans of the books and is administered purely on a voluntary basis.
Since 1990, Colin has been a regular cartoonist for national publications. A Thai language translation of his cartoon scrapbook, Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket (Matichon May 04) and weekly social cartoons in the Nation newspaper, set him back onto the cartoon trail in 2004. On 4 April 2004, an illustrated bilingual column ‘cycle logical’ was launched in Matichon’s popular weekly news magazine. These have been published in book form.
Colin is married and lives in a fishing community on the Gulf of Siam with his wife, Kyoko, and ever-expanding pack of very annoying dogs.
Ten years ago, Colin became involved in child protection in the region and set up an NGO in Phuket which he ran for the first two years. After two more years of study in child abuse issues, and one more stint in Phuket, he moved on to ECPAT, an international organization combating child prostitution and pornography. He established their training program for caregivers.
All the while, Colin continued with his two other passions; cartooning and writing. He contributed regular columns for the Bangkok Post but had little time to write. It wasn't until his work with trafficked children that he found himself sufficiently stimulated to put together his first novel, The Night Bastard (Suk's Editions. 2000).
The reaction to that first attempt was so positive that Colin decided to take time off and write full-time. Since October 2001 he has written nine more novels. Two of these are child-protection based: Evil in the Land Without (Asia Books December 03), and Pool and Its Role in Asian Communism (Asia Books, Dec 05). These were followed by The Coroner’s Lunch (Soho Press. Dec 04), Thirty Three Teeth (Aug 05), Disco for the Departed (Aug 06), Anarchy and Old Dogs (Aug 07), and Curse of the Pogo Stick (Aug 08), The Merry Misogynist (Aug 09), Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Aug 10) these last seven are set in Laos in the 1970’s.
On June 15, 2009 Colin Cotterill received the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library award for being "the author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to library users".
When the Lao books gained in popularity, Cotterill set up a project to send books to Lao children and sponsor trainee teachers. The Books for Laos programme elicits support from fans of the books and is administered purely on a voluntary basis.
Since 1990, Colin has been a regular cartoonist for national publications. A Thai language translation of his cartoon scrapbook, Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket (Matichon May 04) and weekly social cartoons in the Nation newspaper, set him back onto the cartoon trail in 2004. On 4 April 2004, an illustrated bilingual column ‘cycle logical’ was launched in Matichon’s popular weekly news magazine. These have been published in book form.
Colin is married and lives in a fishing community on the Gulf of Siam with his wife, Kyoko, and ever-expanding pack of very annoying dogs.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
January 26, 2019
As Jimm’s family rebuilds their weather-devastated ocean resort in out-of-the-way Maprao, Thailand, a homeless man is making a name for himself by sleeping on the nearby railroad tracks each evening. After someone attempts to shoot him, “Smelly Man” seeks out Jimm’s help to find the potential assassin. As usual, Jimm with the help of her ex-policeman grandfather, her transvestite brother, and the gay, but closeted police Captain, she solves “Smelly Man’s” mystery.
The Jimm Juree Case Files are a series of short stories that supplement the Jimm Juree series. Colin Cotterill has a humorous and unique take on life in Thailand, and his writing can be deliciously sarcastic and funny. I found this entry in the series to be a little short on what I would consider to be the essential details – it felt as though the central part of the detection was missing from the story. However, it, like the other stories in the series, is very original.
I would recommend this series and this particular story only if you have read and enjoyed other Colin Cotterill works.
The Jimm Juree Case Files are a series of short stories that supplement the Jimm Juree series. Colin Cotterill has a humorous and unique take on life in Thailand, and his writing can be deliciously sarcastic and funny. I found this entry in the series to be a little short on what I would consider to be the essential details – it felt as though the central part of the detection was missing from the story. However, it, like the other stories in the series, is very original.
I would recommend this series and this particular story only if you have read and enjoyed other Colin Cotterill works.
March 13, 2020
2013 - Chumphon, Südthailand
It was like renting a room above a bowling alley – amplified by a zillion. The fillings in my teeth rattled with every strike. But the balls were boulders the size of VW Beetles tossed from the maximum height of a squeaky, rust-ridden back-hoe arm. The ground shook with every toss – every semi-trailer unloaded. I was staying in a Porta-office beside a Porta-loo, Porta-shower combined unit we’d rented and placed on the site of our old seaside home.
Not for the faint of stomach:
There was a spare seat inside but we insisted Chu and the dog travel on the flatbed. Not prejudice – just olfactory common sense. I can’t safely drive and vomit at the same time.
Ziemlich makaber und leider ein bisschen zu kurz.
It was like renting a room above a bowling alley – amplified by a zillion. The fillings in my teeth rattled with every strike. But the balls were boulders the size of VW Beetles tossed from the maximum height of a squeaky, rust-ridden back-hoe arm. The ground shook with every toss – every semi-trailer unloaded. I was staying in a Porta-office beside a Porta-loo, Porta-shower combined unit we’d rented and placed on the site of our old seaside home.
Not for the faint of stomach:
There was a spare seat inside but we insisted Chu and the dog travel on the flatbed. Not prejudice – just olfactory common sense. I can’t safely drive and vomit at the same time.
Ziemlich makaber und leider ein bisschen zu kurz.
February 6, 2019
Few people can combine characterization, ingenious plots, and humor quite like Colin Cotterill. I love his work!
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July 7, 2019Great fun!
April 11, 2020
Funny take on a familiar plot.
December 19, 2020
Quick, sharp and funny. The writing was as good as ever, and the story as satisfying. Looking forward to the next installment!
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