Love Songs from a Shallow Grave, Colin Cotterill
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave, Colin Cotterill
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Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
The Dr. Siri Investigations, Book 7

Author: Colin Cotterill

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/27/2011


Synopsis

Three young Laotian women have died from fencingsword wounds. Each of them had studied abroad in an Eastern bloc country. Before he can complete his investigation, Dr. Siri is lured to Cambodia by an allexpensespaid trip. Accused of spying for the Vietnamese, he is imprisoned, beaten, and threatened with death. The Khmer Rouge is relentless, and it is touch and go for the dauntless, seventyfouryearold nationaland onlycoroner of Laos.

About Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill has won the Dilys Award and a Crime Writers of America Dagger and has been a finalist for several other awards. Born in London, he has worked as teacher in Israel, Australia, the United States, and Japan before he started training teachers in Thailand. He lives with his wife in a small fishing village on the Gulf of Siam in Southern Thailand.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on January 21, 2012

I wish I had something intelligent to add to the series of cracking good reviews already written on this book. After Meeting Peit Van Der Valk (Nicolas Freeling) of the Netherlands and Detective Wallander (Henning Mankell) of the Swedish police, I thought I had already met the men of my dreams. Howe......more

Goodreads review by Yeva on March 19, 2014

Love Songs From a Shallow Grave was confusing and tortured, and it led me on a ride that was spine-tingling and heart wrenching. I loved this book, but there were so many times I wanted to cry. Sometimes this book felt almost too real. The atrocities that occurred during the seventies in Cambodia an......more

Goodreads review by Marta on April 17, 2020

This book is the darkest so far and looks back at the terrible, senseless 1978 genocide in Cambodia. Siri is in the middle of an investigation when he is sent to Cambodia on a diplomatic mission - and discovers the true terror of what’s happening there. The other side of the story is a murder invest......more

Goodreads review by Ed on June 29, 2011

This is the first title I've read in the Dr. Siri Paibourn mystery series, and it is an impressive outing. If you don't know much about Laos and the Khmer Rouge in neighboring Cambodia, Long Songs will give you a true but grim history lesson. Dr. Siri is the only coroner working in 1978 Laos when he......more

Goodreads review by Karen on May 03, 2011

I worked with Cambodian refugees in Atlanta in the 80's and found myself grateful for Cotterill's decision to take Siri into the spiritual and social devastation of Pol Pot's revolution. The Cambodian segment, unfortunately, is not well-woven into the mystery in Laos -- feels like parallel, disconne......more