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.witty novel sharply captures the confusion after the revolution, and the hero, at turns cynical and humane, is an absolute diamond - Daily Telegraph (Daily Telegraph)
Cotterill's depiction of this exotic, troubled country is fascinating, and his light touch makes Siri, with his humanity and strange dreams, very appealing - Guardian (Guardian)
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Cotterill has a wonderful sense of farce...a delightful book - Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney Morning Herald)
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Cotterill's depiction of this exotic, troubled country is fascinating, and his light touch makes Siri, with his humanity and strange dreams, very appealing - Guardian (Guardian)
This series kickoff is an embarrassment of riches: Holmesian sleuthing, political satire and droll comic study of a prickly late bloomer - Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus)
Cotterill has a wonderful sense of farce...a delightful book - Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney Morning Herald)
The story is good, the characters interesting, the hero delightful and the setting fascinating: a find - The Literary Review (Literary Review)
"An embarrassment of riches: Holmesian sleuthing, political satire and a droll comic study of a prickly late bloomer" Kirkus Reviews
Despite a total lack of training, experience and inclination, Dr Siri Paiboun has just been appointed state coroner for the Lao People's Democratic Republic. It's 1976, the royal family has been deposed, the communists have taken over, and 72-year-old Siri has got the coroner's job because he's the only doctor left in Laos.
But when the wife of a Party leader is wheeled into the morgue and the bodies of tortured Vietnamese soldiers start bobbing to the surface of a Laotian lake, all eyes turn to the new coroner. Faced with an emerging international crisis, Siri will be forced to enlist old friends, tribal shamans, forensic deduction, spiritual acumen and some good old-fashioned sleuthing before he can discover quite what's going on...
"The story is good, the hero delightful and the setting fascinating: a find" Literary Review
Despite a total lack of training, experience and inclination, Dr Siri Paiboun has just been appointed state coroner for the Lao People's Democratic Republic. It's 1976, the royal family has been deposed, the communists have taken over, and 72-year-old Siri has got the coroner's job because he's the only doctor left in Laos.
But when the wife of a Party leader is wheeled into the morgue and the bodies of tortured Vietnamese soldiers start bobbing to the surface of a Laotian lake, all eyes turn to the new coroner. Faced with an emerging international crisis, Siri will be forced to enlist old friends, tribal shamans, forensic deduction, spiritual acumen and some good old-fashioned sleuthing before he can discover quite what's going on...
"The story is good, the hero delightful and the setting fascinating: a find" Literary Review
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