The Woman Who Wouldnt Die, Colin Cotterill
The Woman Who Wouldnt Die, Colin Cotterill
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The Woman Who Wouldnt Die

Author: Colin Cotterill

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2014


Synopsis

The long-awaited follow-up to Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterills bestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr. Siri In a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. A woman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeral and everyone in the village saw her body burned. Then, three days later, she was back in her house as if shed never been dead at all. But now shes clairvoyant and can speak to the dead. Thats why the long-dead brother of a Lao general has enlisted her to help his brother uncover his remains, which have been lost at the bottom of a river for many years. Lao national coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, are sent along to supervise the excavation. It could be a kind of relaxing vacation for them, maybe, except Siri is obsessed with the pretty, undead mediums special abilities, and Madame Daeng might be a little jealous. She doesnt trust the woman for some reason. Is her hunch right? What is the group really digging for at the bottom of this remote river on the Thai border? What war secrets are being covered up?

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 Jeremy

Original review at Crime Fiction Lover The setting is Vientiane, Laos in the late 1970s. The country’s only coroner, Dr Siri Paiboun, now retired, is recalled to oversee the search for the body of the brother of a high-ranking minister. This was initiated when the corpse’s location was approximated b......more

When the Revolution erupted in Laos, in the 1970′s, Dr. Siri Paiboun was a grumpy widower with no faith in man, no tolerance for nonsense, and not a whole lot to live for. When the Communists essentially press-ganged him into being the national coroner (all other candidates had fled, or been shot) h......more