Author: colincotterill
In this dark, quirky fourteenth Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery set in Communist Laos in the early ’80s, a death threat sends Dr. Siri down memory lane, from Paris in the ’30s to war-torn Vietnam in the ’70s, to figure out who’s trying to kill him now. 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 … 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…
When septuagenarian Dr. Siri Paiboun becomes the national coroner of Laos, he launches an investigation into the grisly murder of a prominent politician’s wife. Meet “a wry, eccentric addition to the genre” (Booklist) in this “wonderfully fresh” start to a mystery series (The New York Times Book Review).
Upon receiving a strange and disturbing package, retired coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun sets off on a treacherous scavenger hunt to trace clues to a deadly puzzle. “Neatly combines humor, detection, and politics” (Publishers Weekly).