Oh Dr. Siri how I love you! This is another excellent book in this series. Colin Cotterill has such a gift for creating not only complex and wonderful characters, but also his descriptions of the landscape and atmosphere in this story are so vivid.Whenever I finish one of these books I always fee...
At 72, Dr. Siri yearns to drink coffee, tend his garden, and read his books. But instead of a pension and honorable retirement for this combat surgeon to the Pathet Lao, he is now, in 1976, the chief and only medical examiner in Laos– the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos– shortly after the c...
Comrade shamans. The communist party of the new Democratic Republic of Laos has issued a directive: “The spirits will have to toe the line.” This is the second installment in my favorite mystery series, which is set in Laos in 1977 and features Dr. Siri Paiboun--"the reluctant national coroner,...
Rating: 3.75* of fiveThe Publisher Says: 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 assum...
Rating: 4* of five The Publisher Says: In Vientiane, a booby-trapped corpse, intended for Dr. Siri, the national coroner of Laos, has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui’s intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri...