The Coroner's Lunch

Synopsis

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin CotterillA wonderfully fresh and exotic mystery. --The New York Times Book ReviewDr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent 72-year-old has an outstanding qualification for it: curiosity. And he doesn't mind incurring the wrath of the Party hierarchy as he unravels mysterious murders, because the spirits of the dead are on his side. With the help of his newly-appointed secretary, the ambitious and shrewd Dtui, and Mr. Geung, the Down-Syndrome-afflicted morgue assistant, Dr. Paiboun performs autopsies and begins asking questions to solve the mysteries relating to the death of the wife of a government official and of the unidentified body fished out of the river who didn't drown but was tortured with electricity. As it turns out, all is not peaceful and calm in the new Communist paradise of Laos. The sights, smells and colors of Laos practically jump off the pages of this inspired, often wryly witty first novel. --Denver PostIf Cotterill. . . had done nothing more than treat us to Siri's views on the dramatic, even comic crises that mark periods of government upheaval, his debut mystery would still be fascinating. But the multiple cases spread out on Siri's examining table. . . are not cozy entrtainments, but substantial crimes that take us into the thick of political intrigue, --The New York Times Book Revie

Copyright:

2010

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781616959913

Publisher:

Open Road Media

Date of Addition:

11/01/17

Copyrighted By:

Colin Cotterill.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers

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