Thai Crime Reporter turns Funeral Photog
Review of the DCO Books Kindle edition (2017)

The Funeral Photographer is the first of Colin Cotterill's short stories continuation series of the Jimm Juree Case Files (2017 - present day) following on from his original Jimm Juree novels and prequels (2011-2013).

This has the feel of a re-boot of Cotterill's character as it starts off with a complete background of how Jimm Juree had to leave her job as a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail when her family moves to Southern Thailand. On the verge of pawning her reporter camera, she is mistaken for a funeral photographer at a wake where she had simply gone to get some of the free food available to mourners. She takes up this new career while observing the local rural farming community who have been grifted by a big city gang nicknamed the "neckties".

Jimm Juree really doesn't do any investigating here and is more of an observer to events as they unfold. Still, Cotterill portrays characters and atmosphere very well even in the space of a relatively short story (33 pages in the Kindle version that I read). I don't know how easy it is to track down the earlier longer novels at this stage but the new dozen short stories are easily available.

Trivia and Link
I tracked down DCO Books in Thailand but it appears they have sold off the rights to the Jimm Juree books as they are no longer available at their website. ( )

Set in Thailand, a mystery featuring female news reporter and detective, Jimm Juree. A Thai Miss Marple…

Jimm Juree has moved from the city in north Thailand to take care of her mother who decided to run a resort in the south. Of course, typhoon season took out the resort and now Jimm must find a way to survive; and being Jimm she finds a career. ( )