The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries),Used

The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries),Used

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The Coroners Lunch is marvelous. The setting may be unique in Western fiction, and the characters are unique to themselves. Sweet but not sappy, offbeat but not selfconscious about it, this book doesnt so much pull you in as open a door and let you walk happily through. Fans of Alexander McCall Smiths books will love this one.SJ Rozan, author of Absent FriendsLaos, 1972. The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Most of the educated class has fled, but Dr. Siri Paiboun, a Paristrained doctor whose late wife had been an ardent Communist, remains. And so this 72yearold physician is appointed state coroner, despite the fact that he has no training or even supplies to use in performing his new task. What he does have is curiosity and integrity. At his age he is not about to let a bunch of ignorant bureaucrats dictate to him.One of his first cases involves three bodies recovered from a reservoir, but Dr. Siri establishes that the cause of death was not drowning. These men seem to have been electrocuted, perhaps tortured, and they also seem to be Vietnamese, which could have international repercussions. And then there is the inexplicable death of a Party bigwigs equally important wife. She collapsed and died at a banquet. But Dr. Siri doesnt think her death was from natural causes.In the course of his investigations, Dr. Siri must travel to his birthplace, a Hmong village he has not visited for more than 60 years, where he makes a profound discovery, not only about the motive for several murders, but about himself.Colin Cotterill was born in London, taught in Australia, the U.S., Laos and Japan, and lives in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand on the Burmese border. He works for UNICEF and local nongovernmental agencies to prevent child prostitution and to rehabilitate abused children.For more information, visit www.colincotterill.com

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