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    Number Twelve: Lost Property
    Number Twelve: Lost Property
    Number Twelve: Lost Property
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    Number Twelve: Lost Property

    By Colin Cotterill

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    Jimm Juree leaves her handbag behind at supermarket car park. Finding it again drags her into world of social media which she had managed to ignore thus far. She discovers that crime fighting can be easier with the backing of many online friends.

    Number Twelve: Lost Property is the twelfth 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherProglen
    Release dateNov 9, 2019
    ISBN9786164560253
    Number Twelve: Lost Property
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    Colin Cotterill

    Colin Cotterill (born 2 October 1952) is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos.

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      Number Twelve - Colin Cotterill

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      Number Twelve

      Lost Property

      A Jimm Juree Short Story

      By Colin Cotterill

      Number Twelve: Lost Property

      Copyright © Colin Cotterill, 2019

      DCO Books

      eBook Edition published by

      Proglen Trading Co., Ltd. 2019

      Bangkok Thailand

      http://www.dco.co.th

      eBook ISBN 978-616-456-025-3

      All Rights Reserved

      This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and other elements of the story are either the product of the author's imagination or else are used only fictitiously. Any resemblance to real characters, living or dead, or to real incidents, is entirely coincidental.

      Also by Colin Cotterill

      Dr. Siri Paiboun series

      The Coroner's Lunch (2004)

      Thirty-Three Teeth (August 2005)

      Disco For the Departed (August 2006

      Anarchy and Old Dogs (August 2007)

      Curse of the Pogo Stick (August 2008)

      The Merry Misogynist (August 2009)

      Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (August 2010)

      Slash and Burn (October 2011)

      The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (January 2013)

      Six and a Half Deadly Sins (May 2015)

      The Rat Catchers' Olympics (August 2017)

      Jimm Juree series

      Killed at the Whim of a Hat (July 2011)

      Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (June 2012)

      The Axe Factor (April 2014)

      The Amok Runners (June 2016)

      Other publications

      Evil in the Land Without (2003)

      Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket (2004)

      Pool and its Role in Asian Communism (2005)

      Cyclelogical (2006)

      Ageing Disgracefully (2009)

      Bleeding in Black and White (2015)

      Contents

      Introduction to Jimm Juree

      Lost Property

      Introduction

      Brief description of how the Jurees ended up in Maprao, the buttock-hole of the earth.

      I’ll keep this brief because it still irks me to tell our story. My name is Jimm Juree and I was, at one stage, a mere liver failure away from fame and fortune in Chiang Mai. But our mother, Mair, dragged the family down south to run a decrepit seaside resort on the Gulf of Thailand. I’m a reporter. A real one. And as soon as the head of the crime desk at the Chiang Mai Mail completed his impending suicide by Mekhong Whisky, I was to step into his moldy old shoes; only the second female in the country to hold such a prestigious position.

      Then Mair – nutty as peanut brittle – sold our family home without telling us and headed south. With her went her father, Granddad Jah, the only Thai traffic policeman to go through an entire career without accepting bribes or kickbacks, my brother, Arny, a wimpy lamb with the body of a Greek God, and me. The only one to pass up on family obligation was Sissy, my transsexual brother. Once a cabaret star, and briefly a TV celebrity, now an ageing recluse, Sissy had become something of

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