Background
Colin Cotterill was born on October 2, 1952, in London, United Kingdom.
Colin Cotterill
2009
Colin Cotterill at Dagger in the Library Award ceremony with judges Cheney Gardner, Karen Fraser and Mark Benjamin in 2009.
Colin Cotterill at the Bangkok Edge festival. Photo by Peter Janssen.
Colin Cotterill. Photo by Roy Hamric.
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill at CrimeFest in Bristol.
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill with Matthias Habich.
Colin Cotterill. Photo by Peter Janssen.
Colin Cotterill with Ulrike Sarkany.
Colin Cotterill with Yen Yang.
2009
Colin Cotterill at Dagger in the Library Award ceremony with judges Cheney Gardner, Karen Fraser and Mark Benjamin in 2009.
Colin Cotterill at the Bangkok Edge festival. Photo by Peter Janssen.
Colin Cotterill. Photo by Roy Hamric.
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill at CrimeFest in Bristol.
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill with Matthias Habich.
Colin Cotterill. Photo by Peter Janssen.
Colin Cotterill with Ulrike Sarkany.
Colin Cotterill with Yen Yang.
Colin Cotterill with his dogs.
Colin Cotterill with his dogs.
(The trafficking of children is one of Southeast Asia's ma...)
The trafficking of children is one of Southeast Asia's major social problems. In this exciting tale, a fiction based on all too real fact, a small unlikely group of heroes faces obstacles and setbacks when they find themselves up against a corrupt and lethal system exploiting defenseless children. Pauline Owen has an insatiable appetite for Physical pleasures and little time for social work. Against her better judgment, she begins investigating a case which leads her into a corrupt world of human trafficking and matter-of-fact assassinations.
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Bastard-Colin-Cotterill/dp/9747457245
2000
(John Jessel is an English Child Protection Unit detective...)
John Jessel is an English Child Protection Unit detective working on pedophile cases in Surrey. He's good at his job but is on a downhill slide as booze slowly takes over his deteriorating body and his lonely life. His recent case has got out of control. Postcards signed 'The Paw' have taken credit for the murders of several children. But The Paw also seems to know too much about John and his family. There are threats against his sister Susan, her son Eddo, and their mother. John is forced to hide them while he follows the scarce clues in the case.
https://www.amazon.com/Evil-Land-Without-Colin-Cotterill-ebook/dp/B00DZEQXW2/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(To celebrate life, every woman should wish for a talented...)
To celebrate life, every woman should wish for a talented novelist son such as Colin Cotterill. We’ve seen movies like Thelma & Louise and read books like Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia, which follow the exploits of women in search of meaning and fulfillment. But nothing you’ve seen or read will prepare you for Ethel and Joan, two English women, who take Thailand by storm. They had been married (at different times) to the same man. They became best friends.
https://www.amazon.com/Ethel-Joan-Phuket-Colin-Cotterill-ebook/dp/B00HED1BSQ/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(A funny and moving tale set during the secret war in Laos...)
A funny and moving tale set during the secret war in Laos The Year is 1970. Waldo Monk is 65 years old, a widower, and two months away from retirement after a lifetime at Roundly's pool-ball factory in Mattfield, Indiana. Enter Saifon, a twenty-something Lao-American girl with an attitude, who has come to the US under mysterious circumstances. She's just arrived at Roundly's, and it's Waldo's task to train her up for his job as a pool-ball quality controller. Saifon hates just about everyone, and even though Waldo is tempted to strangle her at first, a friendship grows between them. Two personal disasters in Waldo's life lead to him 'adopting' Saifon instead. But Saifon's mission at the factory is to make enough money, by hook or by crook, to get back to Laos - for she has sworn to discover the truth about her past.
https://www.amazon.com/Pool-its-Role-Asian-Communism-ebook/dp/B007ZJLMQU/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Ageing Disgracefully is a delightful collection of short ...)
Ageing Disgracefully is a delightful collection of short stories that takes a humorous and life-affirming look at the lives of people who, though considerably advanced in years, are still behaving very, very naughtily. With a keen eye for human foibles and a wicked sense of humor, Colin Cotterill has collected and illustrated - with words and drawings - the colorful lives of numerous atrocious elders found along his life journey, from his old home, England, to his new home, Thailand, with stops in Australia the United States. In Ageing Disgracefully we entered the minds of venerable and not so venerable elderly bank robbers, murderers and serial killers, as well as mere practical jokers, gamblers and perverts, who may remind us of some people we know or live with, or perhaps a person who stares back at us in the mirror.
https://www.amazon.com/Ageing-Disgracefully-Colin-Cotterill-ebook/dp/B0038JETMA/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to quit the city...)
When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to quit the city for a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she expects much in her life to change. Quiet will replace quick, and, surely, crime will give way to calm. There goes the career, then. Not a chance. No sooner has she settled than a surprise discovery springs from a local well. Two skeletons: both wearing the signs of thirty years of decay, with one also wearing a hat. And, if this wasn't uncommon enough, a monk is soon killed in a neighboring town. Who are the skeletons? Who murdered the monk? Is there a connection? Step forward Jimm Juree.
https://www.amazon.com/Killed-Whim-Hat-Juree-Novel-ebook/dp/B01LZP27WR/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(In rural Thailand, former crime reporter Jimm Juree must ...)
In rural Thailand, former crime reporter Jimm Juree must grapple with her quirky family, a mysterious mother, and daughter on the lam and the small matter of a head on the beach. When Jimm Juree's mother sold the family house and invested in a rundown 'holiday camp' at the southern end of Thailand on the Gulf of Siam, the family had little choice but to follow. Jimm Juree, who was well on her way to achieving her goal of becoming the primary crime reporter for the major daily newspaper in Chiang Mai, is less than thrilled to have lost her job as a reporter and to be stuck in the middle of nowhere where little of interest happens. So it is with mixed feelings that she greets the news that a head has washed up on the beach. It's tragic, of course, but this could be the sort of sensational murder that would get her a byline in a major daily and keep her toehold on her journalism career. Now all she has to do is find out who was murdered, and why.
https://www.amazon.com/Grandad-Theres-Head-Beach-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B006ZL1KRK/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Since Jimm Juree moved, under duress, with her family to ...)
Since Jimm Juree moved, under duress, with her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she misses the bright lights of Chiang Mai. Most of all, she's missed her career as a journalist, which was just getting started. In Chiang Mai, she was covering substantial stories and major crimes. But here in Maprao, Jimm has to scrape assignments from the local online journal, the Chumphon Gazette - and be happy about it when she gets one.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FO6IIBI/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Things are bad in New York They’re not much better in Sai...)
Things are bad in New York They’re not much better in Saigon But can Bodge find true love in the Orient? Meet CIA agent Robert "Bodge" Leon. He has been a desk jockey in New York since the Agency was formed. It’s 1952, and now they want him in the field, spying on the French in Vietnam. His best friend is missing in New York and someone is trying to kill him. How much worse can it get? How about falling in love with the Vietnamese Emperor’s beautiful concubine? But she has her own plans and where does Bodge fit in those?
https://www.amazon.com/Bleeding-Black-White-Colin-Cotterill/dp/1511671297/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(Becoming an extra along with her two brothers, Arny and S...)
Becoming an extra along with her two brothers, Arny and Sissy, on an American movie with Hollywood stars being shot in the north of Thailand, she stumbles upon murder and mayhem while at the same time being part of an ancient treasure hunt. As usual, it would be wrong for the bad guys to underestimate Jimm.
https://www.amazon.com/Amok-Runners-Colin-Cotterill/dp/1533265283/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(Vientiane, 1980: For a man of his age and in his corner o...)
Vientiane, 1980: For a man of his age and in his corner of the world, Dr. Siri, the 76-year-old former national coroner of Laos, is doing remarkably well - especially considering the fact that he is possessed by a thousand-year-old Hmong shaman. That is until he finds a mysterious note tied to his dog’s tail. Upon finding someone to translate the note, Dr. Siri learns it is a death threat addressed not only to him but to everyone he holds dear. Whoever wrote the note claims the job will be executed in two weeks.
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Biggest-Nothing-Paiboun-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07KVM9DK3/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(Dr. Siri Paiboun is a mystery series consisting of fourte...)
Dr. Siri Paiboun is a mystery series consisting of fourteen books. Laos, 1978: Dr. Siri Paiboun, a 72-year-old medical doctor, has unwillingly been appointed the national coroner of the new socialist Laos. His lab is underfunded, his boss is incompetent, and his support staff is quirky, to say the least. But Siri’s sense of humor gets him through his often frustrating days. When the body of the wife of a prominent politician comes through his morgue, Siri has reason to suspect the woman has been murdered. To get to the truth, Siri and his team face government secrets, spying neighbors, victim hauntings, Hmong shamans, botched romances, and other deadly dangers. Somehow, Siri must figure out a way to balance the will of the party and the will of the dead.
https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Siri-Paiboun-Mystery-Book/dp/B07KYRP8T1
Colin Cotterill was born on October 2, 1952, in London, United Kingdom.
Collin Cotterill was trained as a teacher.
After his studies, Collin Cotterill set off on a world tour where he worked as a teacher. He was 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. In Laos, he worked with UNESCO and wrote and produced a forty-program language teaching series. For two years he ran a non-governmental organization in Phuket where he was involved in child protection. After that, he moved on to ECPAT International, where he established a 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 (2000). The reaction to that first attempt was so positive that Colin decided to take time off and write full-time after 27 years of teaching. Since October 2001 he has written nine more novels. Two of these are child-protection based: Evil in the Land Without (2003), and Pool and Its Role in Asian Communism (2005). These were followed by The Coroner’s Lunch (2004), Thirty Three Teeth (2005), Disco for the Departed (2006), Anarchy and Old Dogs (2007), and Curse of the Pogo Stick (2008), The Merry Misogynist (2009), Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (2010) these last seven are set in Laos in the 1970’s.
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 program elicits support from fans of the books and is administered purely on a voluntary basis. He has also been a cartoonist for national publications since 1990. In 2004 his cartoon book Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket was published. He currently lives in Southeast Asia. His most recently published book is The Second Biggest Nothing (2019).
Collin Cotterill received a Dagger in The Library Award for The Dr. Siri Series, Prix SNCF du polar for Le Dejeuner du Coroner (The Coroner's Lunch), Dilys Award for Thirty Three Teeth. He was also nominated for Barry Award for The Coroner's Lunch and the Last Laugh Award. His Dr. Siri series sold more than a million copies.
(Becoming an extra along with her two brothers, Arny and S...)
2016(Ageing Disgracefully is a delightful collection of short ...)
2009(In rural Thailand, former crime reporter Jimm Juree must ...)
2012(Since Jimm Juree moved, under duress, with her family to ...)
2014(When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to quit the city...)
2011(Things are bad in New York They’re not much better in Sai...)
2015(To celebrate life, every woman should wish for a talented...)
2004(John Jessel is an English Child Protection Unit detective...)
2003(The trafficking of children is one of Southeast Asia's ma...)
2000(A funny and moving tale set during the secret war in Laos...)
2005(Vientiane, 1980: For a man of his age and in his corner o...)
2019(Dr. Siri Paiboun is a mystery series consisting of fourte...)
When Colin Cotterill first started his books, he wasn’t writing for any particular genre and his novels have been difficult to define since, as they feature elements of crime, comedy, history and the supernatural.
Quotations:
"Honesty can be a dirty gift."
"Forget the planet, save the garden."
"Concentrate on the small things and do them well."
"A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it."
"Sarcasm is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you’ve run out of bullets."
"Fear helps us survive."
"Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole."
Collin Cotterill has seven dogs.
Colin Cotterill is married to Kyoko.
