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Jimm Juree Case Files #4
Number Four: The Zero Finger Option
Number The Zero Finger Option is the fourth 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.
In The Zero Finger Option a letter a day delivered by a good looking young postman leads Jimm into a new mystery. It starts as a case of internet scamming, but ends up somewhere far worse.
In The Zero Finger Option a letter a day delivered by a good looking young postman leads Jimm into a new mystery. It starts as a case of internet scamming, but ends up somewhere far worse.
- GenresMystery
52 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 27, 2018
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About the author
Colin Cotterill
73 books1,022 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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March 12, 2018
The Best Case File So Far
Ah Jimm . A mystery worthy of your talents, insight and sister. I was surprised by the ending. What an entertaining mystery.
Ah Jimm . A mystery worthy of your talents, insight and sister. I was surprised by the ending. What an entertaining mystery.
April 15, 2018
Jimm does it again
A series of letters intrigues Jimm, and, with Sissy's help, she catches another murderer. Told with the usual kooky humor that makes Cotteril's work so much fun.
A series of letters intrigues Jimm, and, with Sissy's help, she catches another murderer. Told with the usual kooky humor that makes Cotteril's work so much fun.
February 24, 2020
Während mir die "Case Files" 1-3 sehr gut gefallen hatten, fand ich "Number Four" etwas enttäuschend: Reichlich unglaubwürdige Geschichte, wenig Action.
December 9, 2018
"The Zero Finger Option" features a series of cryptic messages that puts Jimm on the trail of a killer. All the stories in this series are enjoyable, and all show Cotterill's talent with ingenious puzzles, humor, and a wide range of characters who prove that all people, no matter their circumstances, have value. I'm definitely looking forward to Jimm's next case.
April 12, 2024
Love everything Colin Cotterill
April 19, 2018
Jimm Juree’s family was dragged by her mother to the south of Thailand to run a seaside resort. She is formerly a big-city crime reporter now trying different career options after the resort was washed away in a monsoon. While she is unsuccessfully trying her hand at being a middle-school English tutor, Jimm receives the first in a series of letters which eventually disclose the writer to be a gruesome murderer of an internet scammer. Jimm and her transsexual brother, former beauty queen and computer hacker, Sissy, are compelled to investigate.
Number Four: The Zero Finger Option is the humorous fourth short-story in Colin Cotterill’s Jimm Jury Case Files series. Cotterill has written four books in the Jimm Juree series as well. The Case Files short stories come out about once a month or so, and I look forward to reading each one. Cotterill has a such an interesting and dry sense of humor.
Each Case File contains an introduction to the Jimm Juree series so that they can be read as stand-alone stories.
Number Four: The Zero Finger Option is the humorous fourth short-story in Colin Cotterill’s Jimm Jury Case Files series. Cotterill has written four books in the Jimm Juree series as well. The Case Files short stories come out about once a month or so, and I look forward to reading each one. Cotterill has a such an interesting and dry sense of humor.
Each Case File contains an introduction to the Jimm Juree series so that they can be read as stand-alone stories.
December 19, 2020
I didn't see the end of that one coming.
Enjoyable as ever. The writing is just so good.
Enjoyable as ever. The writing is just so good.
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