Colin Cotterill

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2004
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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About the Author

Colin Cotterill was born in London in 1952 and taught and trained teachers around the world before settling in Thailand. He spent several years in Laos, initially with UNESCO, before he moved on to become involved in child protection in the region and set up a non-governmental organization in Phuket. He later moved on to ECPAT, an international organization combating child prostitution and pornography. Colin writes and illustrates full time, and lives in Chumphon on the Gulf of Thailand with his wife, Jessi, and a bunch of dogs. He is a Dilys Award winner.

Full Series List in Order

Dr. Siri Paiboun

1 - Coroner's Lunch (Jan-2004)
2 - Thirty-three Teeth (Aug-2005)
3 - Disco for the Departed (Aug-2006)
4 - Anarchy and Old Dogs (Aug-2007)
5 - Curse of the Pogo Stick (Aug-2008)
6 - The Merry Misogynist (Aug-2009)
7 - Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Aug-2010)
8 - Slash and Burn (Dec-2011)
9 - The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (Apr-2013)
10 - Six and a Half Deadly Sins (May-2015)
11 - I Shot the Buddha (Aug-2016)
12 - The Rat Catchers' Olympics (Aug-2017)
13 - Don't Eat Me (Aug-2018)
14 - The Second Biggest Nothing (Aug-2019)
15 - The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot (Jun-2020)

Jimm Juree

1 - Killed at the Whim of a Hat (Jul-2011)
2 - Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (Apr-2012)
3 - The Axe Factor (Apr-2014)

Jimm Juree Case Files

1 - The Funeral Photographer (Sep-2017)
2 - When You Wish Upon a Star (Nov-2017)
3 - Highway Robbery (Dec-2017)
4 - The Zero Finger Option (Jan-2018)
5 - Trash (Apr-2018)
6 - Spay With Me (Jul-2018)
7 - Sex on the Beach (Nov-2018)
8 - Smelly Man (Dec-2018)
9 - Maprao Syndrome (Mar-2019)
10 - Tom Tom (May-2019)
11 - Whale Vomit (Aug-2019)
12 - Lost Property (Nov-2019)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Coroner's Lunch

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 1

    Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent 72-year-old has an outstanding qualification for it: curiosity. And he doe...

  • Thirty-three Teeth

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 2

    Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent seventy-two-year-old has an outstanding qualification for the role: cu...

  • Disco for the Departed

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 3

    Dr Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current government had hidden out in caves, waiting to ...

  • Anarchy and Old Dogs

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 4

    A blind retired dentist has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is duly delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos. At the age of seventy-four, Dr...

  • Curse of the Pogo Stick

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 5

    The fifth Dr. Siri Paiboun mysterySeven female Hmong villagers kidnap Dr. Siri on orders from the village elder who hopes that Yeh Ming, the thousand-year-old shaman who shares the doctor’s body, will consent to exorcise the headman’s daughter. H...

  • The Merry Misogynist

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 6

    In poverty-stricken 1978 Laos, a man from the city with a truck was somebody, a catch for even the prettiest village virgin. The corpse of one of these bucolic beauties turns up in Dr. Siri's morgue and his curiosity is piqued. The victim was tied to...

  • Love Songs from a Shallow Grave

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 7

    Three young Laotian women have died of fencing sword wounds. Each of them had studied abroad in an Eastern bloc country. Before he can complete his investigation, Dr. Siri is lured to Cambodia by an all-expenses-paid trip. Accused of spying for the V...

  • Killed at the Whim of a Hat

    Jimm Juree - 1

    With worldwide critical acclaim, Colin Cotterill is one of the most highly regarded "cult favorite" crime writers today. Now, with this new series, Cotterill is poised to break into the mainstream. Set in present day rural Thailand, Cotterill is as s...

  • Slash and Burn

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 8

    Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he's tired of being Laos's national coroner, a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he's pushing eighty, and wants to spend some time with his ...



  • Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach

    Jimm Juree - 2

    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 ru...

  • Pool and its Role in Asian Communism

    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-somet...

  • Ageing Disgracefully

    This delightful collection of short stories takes a humorous look at the lives of people who have passed the age of sixty and are still behaving very, very naughtily. The collection takes us from England to Asia with stops in Australia and the United...

  • Average Alan

    "A humorous and intelligent novel by the award-winning author of the popular Dr. Siri Phiboun series, Colin Cotterill."Alan lives the life of an average adolescent: not too bad but not quite good enough to be chosen for The Team. The shadow of excell...

  • The Woman Who Wouldn't Die

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 9

    The long-awaited follow-up to 2011's Slash & Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill's bestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr. Siri In a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. A woman w...

  • Evil in the Land Without

    Evil in the Land Without by Colin Cotterill A Spine-Tingling Tale of Murder and Conspiracy. From England to Burma, A Monster Seeks Revenge. Detective John Jessel works on paedophile cases in Surrey, England. He’s good at his job, but on a downhill ...

  • The Axe Factor

    Jimm Juree - 3

    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 ...

  • Bleeding in Black and White

    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 th...

  • Six and a Half Deadly Sins

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 10

    Laos, 1979: Dr. Siri Paiboun, the twice retired ex-National Coroner of Laos, receives an unmarked package in the mail. Inside is a handwoven pha sin, a colorful traditional skirt worn in northern Laos. A lovely present, but who sent it to him, and wh...

  • The Amok Runners

    A detective crime novel set in Thailand featuring Jimm Juree, Colin Cotterill's fictional detective. For followers of Colin Cotterill’s Jimm Juree mystery series, here is new novel for your enjoyment. It is a prequel to the three published books wi...



  • I Shot the Buddha

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 11

    A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders and the ungodly motives behind them Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misf...

  • The Rat Catchers' Olympics

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 12

    The 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow is already rife with controversy, but when a Lao athlete is accused of murder, it escalates into a full blown international incident. In the twelfth entry to the series, Dr. Siri Paiboun and his quirky team of misfits...

  • The Funeral Photographer

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 1

    The Funeral Photographer is the first 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,...

  • When You Wish Upon a Star

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 2

    Number Two: When You Wish Upon a Star is a short story by Colin Cotterill. It is the second in a series of eBook short stories based on his fictional Thai woman journalist and crime solver, Jimm Juree. Jimm has already featured in a number of New Yor...

  • Highway Robbery

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 3

    First, my only appointment of the week phoned to postpone. Second, on the TV news in the evening I was astounded to see scenes from our own Highway 41 where an armoured security van had been deserted minus its cash. And, third, I was awoken just befo...

  • The Zero Finger Option

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 4

    Number Four: 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 str...

  • Trash

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 5

    Number Five: Trash is the fifth 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 u...

  • Spay With Me

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 6

    Number Six: Spay With Me is the sixth 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,...

  • Don't Eat Me

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 13

    Between getting into a tangle with a corrupt local judge, and discovering a disturbing black-market business, Dr. Siri and his friend Inspector Phosy have their hands full in the thirteenth installment of Colin Cotterill's quirky, critically acclaime...

  • Famous Last Selfies

    Although best known as an author of crime novels like the Dr. Siri and Jimm Juree series, Colin Cotterill is also an accomplished artist and illustrator. He has designed many book covers for other authors and this new book of cartoons allows you to p...



  • Sex on the Beach

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 7

    When a tourist is raped and killed at a resort in the south of Thailand, the police place the guilt on a Burmese migrant worker. Jimm is recruited to help the arrested worker and soon smells a rat, or rather a number of them.Number Seven: Sex on the ...

  • Smelly Man

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 8

    Number Eight: Smelly Man is the seventh 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 famil...

  • Maprao Syndrome

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 9

    Number Nine: Maprao Syndrome is the ninth 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 fam...

  • Tom Tom

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 10

    Someone is stalking a local nurse and Jimm is asked to help find the culprit. Instead Jimm uncovers a hot bed of local perversion. Who is the guilty party?Number Ten: Tom Tom is the tenth in a new series of Colin Cotterill short stories featuring his...

  • The Second Biggest Nothing

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 14

    A death threat to Dr. Siri and all his friends sends the ex-coroner down memory lane in the 14th installment of Cotterill's quirky, critically acclaimed series set in 1970s Laos. Vientiane, 1980: For a man of his age and in his corner of the w...

  • Whale Vomit

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 11

    Jimm didn't know what she had found on the beach or how valuable it was. Her Granddad did though. What she also didn't know were the troubles her attempt to claim a fortune would lead her into.Number Eleven: Whale Vomit is the eleventh in a new serie...

  • Lost Property

    Jimm Juree Case Files - 12

    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.Numb...

  • The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot

    Dr. Siri Paiboun - 15

    After 15 cunning, mischievous, heartbreaking, hilarious, eye-opening, and atmospheric installments, Colin Cotterill's award-winning Dr. Siri Paiboun series comes to a close. Make sure you don't miss this last chapter, a deliciously clever puz...

  • The Motion Picture Teller

    An enchanting new standalone novel from CWA Dagger winner Colin Cotterill, set in Bangkok: a mystery without a crime, where the line between fact and fiction blurs, and nothing is as simple as it appearsThailand, 1996: Supot, a postman with the Royal...

Award-Winning Books by Colin Cotterill

Thirty-three Teeth
2006 Dilys Award -- Mystery Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Colin Cotterill has published 38 books.

Colin Cotterill does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Motion Picture Teller, was published in January 2023.

The first book by Colin Cotterill, Coroner's Lunch, was published in January 2004.

Yes. Colin Cotterill has 3 series.
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