4 stars for an easy fun read. Jimm Juree is an ex journalist living with her family at the southern end of Thailand on the Gulf of Thailand coast. Her mother sold their family home in Chang Mai and purchased a run down 5 cabin bungalow guest hotel. Jimm is out walking their 2 dogs on the beach when one of them discovers a head. She tells her grandad. The police are notified. But they turn the head over to the SRM(Southern Rescue Mission Foundation) a scam charity.
Jimm thinks that something is strange and begins to investigate. She also has to deal with 2 mysterious guests, who pay in cash, give false names, and have removed license plates from their car.
There are some laugh out loud lines in this book of quirky characters. Grandad is a retired traffic policeman. Jimm has a transgender sister who is a tech whiz. She also has fearsome looking brother, Arny, who is actually a gentle shy man, in love with a body builder woman older than his mother.
How this group of characters solve the case of the head makes for a pleasnt story as they navigate the complicated issues of police/government corruption and incompetence.
The author bio states that he was born in London, and has worked as a teacher in Israel, Australia, U.S. and Japan, before moving to Thailand. He dedicated this book to the lounge singers and karaoke singers of Thailand who bravely attack English songs phonetically without suffering the inconvenience of meaning.
One quote: "It's been a Hard Day's Night, I should be Sleeping on Kellogg's"
This was a library book.