Dr. Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current government had hidden out in caves, waiting to assume power. Now, as a major celebration of the new regime is scheduled to take place, an arm is found protruding from the concrete walk that had been laid from the President’s former cave hideout to his new house beneath the cliffs. Dr. Siri is ordered to supervise the disinterment of the body attached to the arm, identify the corpse and discover how he died. The autopsy provides some surprises but it is his gift as a shaman that enables the seventy-two-year old doctor to discover why the victim was buried alive and, eventually, the identity of his killer.
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Until then, he’d always thought the contact he’d had with departed souls in his dreams was some kind of mental illness.
Disco for the Departed Colin Cotterill Guesthouse Number One Dr. Siri lay beneath the grimy mesh of the mosquito net, watching the lizard’s third attempt. Twice, the small gray creature had scurried up the wall and ventured out across the ceiling. On both occasions, the unthinkable had happened. Until then, he’d always thought the contact he’d had with departed souls in his dreams was some kind of mental illness. All that had changed the previous year.
Disco for the departed, Colin Cotterill. p. cm. ISBN-10: 1-56947-428-1.
Disco for the Departed. Guesthouse was hardly an appropriate name for the two-story building designed by Vietnamese rectangulists a few years earlier. Guesthouse Number One. Dr. It looked nothing like a house, and its inmates were certainly not guests. It was mostly inhabited by those who had sinned, ideologically, against Party dictates.
Cotterill's books include The Coroner’s Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth, Disco for the Departed, Anarchy and Old Dogs, and Curse of the Pogo Stick, all featuring seventy-three year old Dr. Siri Paiboun, national coroner of Laos. The Dr. Siri series has received a Dilys Award win and a Barry Award nomination. Killed at the Whim of a Hat is the first book in the Jimm Juree Mystery series. Name Pronunciation Colin Cotterill: COT-er-ill. Other books by Colin Cotterill at BookBrowse. Membership Advantages. Author: Colin Cotterill. Guesthouse Number One1. The Red-Tag Bag Room2. A Restaurant with No Food3. The Amateur Interpreter of English6. The Cave of the Dead7.
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Colin Cotterill (born 2 October 1952) is a London-born teacher, comic book writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in Lao People's Democratic Republic, and the Jimm Juree crime novels set in southern Thailand. Colin Cotterill was born in London and trained as a teacher.
Поиск книг BookFi BookSee - Download books for free. Disco for the Departed (Soho Crime). Категория: Юридические науки, Криминология, криминалистика.
I have loved Colin Cotterill's characters since I opened his first book in this series. This is the third of Colin Cotterill's novels of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the spry and wily septuagenarian national coroner for the Democratic People's Republic of Laos. The venue is fresh, and one is entertained while learning something about a culture that is so little-known in the west. Siri Paiboun, the septuagenarian d-(in duress)-pathologist, is a delight. It is also the most ambitious of the series, adding a few layers of depth and gravity to its relatively lighthearted predecessors. Disco for the departed. by. Cotterill, Colin. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books. t on September 21, 2011.