by Colin Cotterill
Dr Siri has a problem. In fact, he has several, but lucky for him, he has a good team on his side. This mystery takes place in Laos during Communist rule and concerns a doctor who wants to retire but can’t and finds himself as a coroner. He struggles to solve the murder of a high ranking official...
I few years ago a realization struck me. Why were the protagonists of the books I was reading invariably between the ages of 20 to 40 (give or take a few years at each end of the interval)? Publishing-wise it seemed like nothing interesting was happening to people outside this age bracket. Is this r...
I found The Coroner's Lunch to be a refreshing book. It takes place in Laos in the 1970s, just after the end of the Vietnam War. Laos is now run by a communist regime, and the people are struggling to come to grips with the changes that communisim brings to their lives. This could have been a ble...
“Fascinating” is the best word that that I come up with. For a second adjective I would choose “original.” I really enjoyed this mystery and have already bought the second in the series.Where to start? This book worked for me on so many levels. Set in the 70’s (post-Vietnam) in communist Laos our pr...
My quest for good writing and a good mystery has finally led me to Colin Cotteril. I have been up and down the Mystery rack at one bookstore after another and there are many mystery writers who can write a pretty good mystery, but not many who can write a good book. "The Coroner's Lunch" is my fir...
It's a new genre--the magical mystery (and if you finished the sentence with "tour," stop reading and click here: http://youtu.be/Hnrsqf33MXADr. Siri, a member of the Communist Party for forty-seven years, has been made the first coroner in the new republic. We meet him sharing a case with a judge w...
Rating: 3.875* of fiveThe Book Report: In the Vientiane, Laos, of November 1976, green-eyed Dr. Siri Paiboun is the seventy-two-year-old coroner...the only one in the newly liberated by communism country...charged with discovering why Mrs. Nitnoy, powerful leader of the Laos Women's Union and wife o...
This was a fun read, to squeeze in on the weekend between the regular chores and Christmas planning activities. This is the first of a mystery series, set in 1970s Laos, starring an elderly wanna-be-retired-surgeon who is coerced into becoming the only coroner after the revolution. Siri might be ex...
Picked up at a charity shop and read with no preconceptions. Amusing and charming and refreshing.
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