The Coroners Lunch, Colin Cotterill
The Coroners Lunch, Colin Cotterill
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The Coroners Lunch
The Dr. Siri Investigations, Book 1

Author: Colin Cotterill

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2011

Synopsis

Laos, 1975: The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a seventytwoyearold Paristrained doctor, is appointed national coroner. Although he has no training for the job, there is no one else: the rest of the educated class have fled. He is expected to come up with the answers the party wants, but crafty and charming Dr. Siri is immune to bureaucratic pressure. At his age, he reasons, what can they do to him? And he knows he cannot fail the dead who come into his care without risk of incurring their boundless displeasure. Eternity could be a long time to have the spirits mad at you.

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 Mario the lone bookwolf

A combination of thriller, ghost novel and satire in an exotic setting, dominated by an authoritarian government. Dr Siri is a cynical guy, always balancing close to saying something that could let him disappear forever if the wrong person would hear it. But, due to the bad education in the dictator......more

Goodreads review by Kylie

A gem of a book, with an exotic setting too! Set in 1976 Laos after the communist takeover, it follows unlikely state coroner Dr Siri Paiboun, a 72 year old doctor that got the job by default, whether he wanted it or not. Siri and his lab techs have everything under control, until the arrival of a p......more

Goodreads review by Candi

4 stars This was a very entertaining and refreshingly different read! Set in the communist country of Laos during the 1970's, The Coroner's Lunch is a mystery/crime novel with a bit of the supernatural and a nice dose of humor thrown into the mix. I absolutely loved Dr. Siri Paiboun, a bit of an atyp......more

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