Thirty-three Teeth - Hardcover

Cotterill, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1569473889 ISBN 13: 9781569473887

Publisher: Soho Crime, 2005

Synopsis

Praise for Cotterill’s The Coroner’s Lunch:

“This series kickoff is an embarrassment of riches: Holmesian sleuthing, political satire and droll comic study of a prickly late bloomer.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“The Coroner’s 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 self-conscious about it, this book doesn’t so much pull you in as open a door and let you walk happily through. Fans of Alexander McCall Smith’s books will love this one.”—S. J. Rozan, author of Absent Friends

“The Coroner’s Lunch is a satisfying feast for the mind.”—Rebecca Pawel, author of Death of a Nationalist, winner of the 2004 Edgar Award for Best First Novel

The national coroner of Laos, Dr. Siri Paiboun, is no respecter of persons or party; at his advanced age he can afford to be independent. With the assistance of his helpers, the mentally retarded Mr. Geung and Nurse Dtui (“Fatty”)—who has dubbed him “Super Spirit Doc”—he elucidates the causes of mysterious deaths. But he also communes with the deposed king, whose special channel to the occult has left him, and attends a conference of shamans called by the Communist government to give the spirits an ultimatum: obey party orders or get out.

Colin Cotterill was born in London in 1952. He has taught in Australia, the United States and Japan and has lived in Thailand, on the Burmese border, and in Laos. For the last several years he has worked for UNICEF and local non-governmental agencies to prevent child prostitution and to rehabilitate abused children. He lives in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.

For more information, visit www.colincotterill.com 

About this title

Review:

'The story is good, the characters interesting, the hero delightful and the setting fascinating: a find' Literary Review. (Literary Review)

'An embarrassment of riches: Holmesian sleuthing, political satire, and droll comic study of a prickly late bloomer' Kirkus (starred review). (Kirkus)

'A wonderfully fresh and exotic mystery' New York Times Book Review. (New York Times)

From the Back Cover:

Siri Paiboun is suddenly a busy man. Five months into his new role as National (and only) Coroner, he has been called to the capital on a 'matter of national security'.
Soon enough, he's examining carbonized corpses, meeting the deposed king and attending a shamans' conference.
Meanwhile, back at his woefully inadequate morgue, savagely mauled bodies are piling up and Siri's assistant decides to investigate. Can she be dealing with a weretiger, or is it a bear of some kind? Whatever kind of animal has thirty-three teeth?

About this edition

• Publisher: Soho Crime
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1569473889
• ISBN 13: 9781569473887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238