Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill

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Author: Colin Cotterill
ISBN: 9781616951184

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Published on Jul 05, 2011 | 248 Pages

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The septuagenarian coroner—and bodily host of an 1,000-year-old Shaman—tackles another strange case in 1970s Laos in this murder mystery with a touch of humor and mysticism.

Dr. Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current government had hidden out in caves, waiting to assume power.

Now, as a major celebration of the new regime is scheduled to take place, an arm is found protruding from the concrete walk that had been laid from the President’s former cave hideout to his new house beneath the cliffs. Dr. Siri is ordered to supervise the disinterment of the body attached to the arm, identify the corpse, and discover how he died.

Praise for Disco for the Departed

“From now on, I’ll even think twice about applying the escapist label to something as purely entertaining as Colin Cotterill’s 1970s period mysteries about that sweetest of sleuths, Dr. Siri Paiboun . . . As the author gently points out, life would be dreary without a few thrills.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Cotterill’s writing is both evocative and educational.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Siri grows more ingenious, wry and wise with every year . . . Atmospheric, humorous, and engaging.”
—Portsmouth Herald

“Readers who enjoy Eliot Pattison’s Asian thrillers . . . will find that Cotterill shares the same sardonic view of Asian communism mixed with a touch of mysticism . . . a quality that sets the work of both authors apart from most mystery fare.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review

Author

Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill is the author of twelve other books in the Dr. Siri Paiboun series, including The Coroner’s Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth, Six and a Half Deadly Sins, I Shot the Buddha, and The Rat Catchers’ Olympics. His fiction has won a Dilys Award and a CWA Dagger in the Library. He lives in Chumphon, Thailand, with his wife and their many deranged dogs.

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