The Coroner's Lunch
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When a party official's wife turns up dead in Communist Laos, an elderly doctor becomes an unlikely detective in this engaging mystery.
Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the 1975 communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but the independent seventy-two-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: The spirits of the dead are on his side—and speak to him in his dreams.
With the help of his newly appointed secretary, the ambitious and shrewd Dtui, and morgue assistant Mr. Geung, who has Down syndrome, Dr. Paiboun performs autopsies and begins asking questions to solve the mystery relating to the death of the wife of a government official.
But when bodies of tortured Vietnamese men begin arriving at the morgue, the precarious position of the coroner and the lab becomes all the more evident. As it turns out, all is not peaceful and calm in the new communist paradise of Laos.
The first book in the Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries, which the New York Times calls "unexpectedly blithe and charming," The Coroner's Lunch blends humor, mystery, and a touch of the supernatural that fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books will adore.
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Colin Cotterill. (2014). The Coroner's Lunch. Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Colin Cotterill. 2014. The Coroner's Lunch. Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller.
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MLA Citation (style guide)Colin Cotterill. The Coroner's Lunch. Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller, 2014.
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Colin Cotterill has lived in Thailand, on the Burmese border, and in Laos. He has worked for UNICEF and local nongovernmental organizations to prevent child prostitution and to rehabilitate abused children. He lives on the Gulf of Thailand and is a full-time writer. The titles, so far, in the Dr. Siri Paiboun series, set in Laos starting in the late seventies, are The Coroner's Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth, Disco for the Departed, Anarchy, Old Dogs, Curse of the Pogo Stick, and The Merry Misogynist.
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When a party official's wife turns up dead in Communist Laos, an elderly doctor becomes an unlikely detective in this engaging mystery.
Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the 1975 communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but the independent seventy-two-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: The spirits of the dead are on his side—and speak to him in his dreams.
With the help of his newly appointed secretary, the ambitious and shrewd Dtui, and morgue assistant Mr. Geung, who has Down syndrome, Dr. Paiboun performs autopsies and begins asking questions to solve the mystery relating to the death of the wife of a government official.
But when bodies of tortured Vietnamese men begin arriving at the morgue, the precarious position of the coroner and the lab becomes all the more evident. As it turns out, all is not peaceful and calm in the new communist paradise of Laos.
The first book in the Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries, which the New York Times calls "unexpectedly blithe and charming," The Coroner's Lunch blends humor, mystery, and a touch of the supernatural that fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books will adore.- seriesId
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November 22, 2004
Confronted by the poisoning of an important official's wife and the sudden appearance of three bodies that may create an international incident between Laos and Vietnam, 72-year-old state coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun keeps his cool in Cotterill's engaging whodunit, set in Laos a year after the 1975 Communist takeover. Ably assisted by the entertaining Geung and ambitious Dtui, Siri calmly gleans clues from minute examinations of the bodies while circumnavigating bureaucratic red tape to arrive at justice. Only an attempt on his life manages to rattle him—and for good reason. In addition to being comfortable around corpses, Siri actually converses with the dead during his dreams. These scenes come across more as a personification of Siri's natural intuition than as a supernatural element. Less explainable is Siri's journey to a northern Laos army base, where he becomes involved in the witchcraft and spirit world of the local tribespeople. Despite this minor detour into the implausible and a later, jarring change in viewpoint, this debut mystery, with its convincing and highly interesting portrayal of an exotic locale, marks the author as someone to watch. Agent, Richard Curtis. (Dec. 15)
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A blurb from S.J. Rozan compares Cotterill to Alexander McCall Smith, whose fans ought to give a boost. The London-born author lives in Chang Mai, Thailand.
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With the help of his newly appointed secretary, the ambitious and shrewd Dtui, and morgue assistant Mr. Geung, who has Down syndrome, Dr. Paiboun performs autopsies and begins asking questions to solve the mystery relating to the death of the wife of a government official.
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