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

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

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

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

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

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