Slash and Burn, Colin Cotterill
Slash and Burn, Colin Cotterill
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Slash and Burn
The Dr. Siri Investigations, Book 8

Author: Colin Cotterill

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2011

Synopsis

Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, hes tired of being Laos national coronera job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, hes pushing eighty and wants to spend some time with his wife before his untimely death, which has been predicted by the local transvestite fortune teller. But retirement is not in the cards for Dr. Siri after all. Hes dragged into one last job for the Lao government: supervising an excavation for the remains of a US fighter pilot who went down in the remote northern Lao jungle ten years earlier. The presence of American soldiers in Laos is a hotbutton issue for both the Americans and the Lao involved, and the search party includes highlevel politicians and scientists. When a member of the party is found dead, a chain of accidents that Dr. Siri suspects are not completely accidental is set off. Everyone is trapped in a cabin in the jungle, and the bodies are starting to pile up. Can Dr. Siri get to the bottom of the MIA pilots mysterious story before the fortune tellers prediction comes true?

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 Trish

Readers meeting Dr. Siri and his cohorts for the first time in this eighth in the Siri series might very well wonder what they had stumbled into. Farce, cross-dressing, and the supernatural are not characteristics we instinctively think of when reviewing our knowledge of communist Laos, but Cotteril......more

Goodreads review by John

This is another funny and informative Dr. Siri mystery from Colin Cotterill. It is not the latest (published 2011). But it fits seamlessly in the series, albeit with references to prior episodes, but these in no way hinder your understanding of the story at hand. Laos, 1978, the ongoing aftermath of......more

Goodreads review by Marta

I enjoyed this installment a lot more than the previous one. Cotterill manages to come up with a new theme for every book, while preserving the cast and setting. This time the whole team goes on a mission to find an American soldier missing in action - and gets embroiled in a tale of American greed,......more

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