The coroner's lunch
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
"A wonderfully fresh and exotic mystery."
—The New York Times Book Review
Dr. 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 Post
"If 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 Review
Coroners -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Humor (Fiction)
Laos -- Fiction
Magic realism (Literature)
Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction
Medicine
Medicine -- Fiction
Mystery
Mystery fiction
Occultism
Occultism -- Fiction
Older people
Older people -- Fiction
Paiboun, Siri
Paiboun, Siri, -- Doctor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Physicians
Physicians -- Fiction
Supernatural
Supernatural -- Fiction
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Grouping Author | colin cotterill |
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Grouping Language | English (eng) |
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South Natomas
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
"A wonderfully fresh and exotic mystery."
—The New York Times Book Review
Dr. 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 Post
"If 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 Review
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9781497622050
9781569473764
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9781616959913
9781846483769
9781982412036
Central
South Natomas
2009
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2014
2017
Oakhill Publishing Limited
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Soho Press
ereads.com
Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Laos -- Fiction
Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction
Medicine -- Fiction
Mystery fiction
Occultism -- Fiction
Older people -- Fiction
Paiboun, Siri, -- Doctor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Physicians -- Fiction
Supernatural -- Fiction
The Coroner's Lunch [electronic resource] / Colin Cotterill
The coroner's lunch / Colin Cotterill
Fiction
Humor (Fiction)
Magic realism (Literature)
Medicine
Mystery
Occultism
Older people
Paiboun, Siri
Physicians
Supernatural
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