Number Two: When You Wish Upon a Star

By Colin Cotterill

Number Two: When You Wish Upon a Star is a fictional 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 Juree has already featured in a number of New York published novels.

In this story a car drives into a river and a woman is dead. A terrible accident and a broken hearted husband. Or it would be if Jimm’s sixth sense hadn’t cut in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Proglen
• Release date: Oct 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9786167817958

Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill (born 2 October 1952) is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos.

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Number Two

When You Wish Upon a Star

A Jimm Juree Short Story

By Colin Cotterill

Number Two: When You Wish Upon a Star

Copyright © Colin Cotterill, 2016

First published by Sunshine Noir 2016

eBook Edition published by

DCO Books, 2017

Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.

Bangkok Thailand

http://www.dco.co.th

ISBN 978-616-7817-95-8

All Rights Reserved

This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and other elements of the story are either the product of the author's imagination or else are used only fictitiously. Any resemblance to real characters, living or dead, or to real incidents, is entirely coincidental.

Also by Colin Cotterill

Dr. Siri Paiboun series

The Coroner's Lunch (2004)

Thirty-Three Teeth (August 2005)

Disco For the Departed (August 2006

Anarchy and Old Dogs (August 2007)

Curse of the Pogo Stick (August 2008)

The Merry Misogynist (August 2009)

Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (August 2010)

Slash and Burn (October 2011)

The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (January 2013)

Six and a Half Deadly Sins (May 2015)

The Rat Catchers' Olympics (August 2017)

Jimm Juree series

Killed at the Whim of a Hat (July 2011)

Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (June 2012)

The Axe Factor (April 2014)

The Amok Runners (June 2016)

Other publications

Evil in the Land Without (2003)

Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket (2004)

Pool and its Role in Asian Communism (2005)

Cyclelogical (2006)

Ageing Disgracefully (2009)

Bleeding in Black and White (2015)

Contents

Introduction to Jimm Juree

When You Wish Upon a Star

Introduction

Brief description of how the Jurees ended up in Maprao, the buttock-hole of the earth.

I’ll keep this brief because it still irks me to tell our story. My name is Jimm Juree and I was, at one stage, a mere liver failure