With a title like this how could you go wrong? As it it turns out, plenty of ways.
It wanders, its boring, its not terribly funny, and I constantly felt like I was not part of some inside joke.
The characters are not that interesting, and the story drags on forever.
I think the author got bored writing it, too. ( )

Entertaining romp on a serious subject. ( )

Not as good as the first, but still enjoyable. You can feel the author beginning to build for a long series. ( )

Where to begin...... The main character, Jimm Juree, is suppose to be a 34 year old single Thai woman reporter, living w/ her family @ a dilapidated beach resort. Her Granddad is a former Traffic Officer, who sits & watches local traffic and counts violations all day. Her brother helps around the resort (and I forget what else) and is in love w/ a female body-builder his mothers' age. Her mother haphazardly runs the resort, which is now in the midst of a monsoon.

Jimm finds a man's head on the beach and the clean-up-crew are fierce mean men.... who don't want anyone looking into his death......

Then there is the girl & her mother who happen upon the resort & insist on staying there (hiding something) who are not who they say they are.

So it goes on, and I had to stop @ page 132..... To put it nicely, this was so very tedious.

There was one part that was very objectionable: "The hounds were forty meters from the debris. They were excited. When Gogo comes across something that confuses her, she whimpers and does a sort of canine Native-American war dance." What sort of insensitive culturally deficient gormless prat writes something like that? Oh yeah: "Born in London, Colin Cotterill has worked as a teacher in Israel, Australia, the United States and japan before he started training teachers in Thailand........" That about says it all, an erudite European educated male, writing in as a female persona he has never personally been. ( )

Much deeper than the first book in the series! It is still a great mystery but there are some darker issues addressed in this second book. ( )