Blogs in November 2024

Curse of the Pogo Stick 13th November 2024

Following a rash moment of insolence, Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos’ reluctant national coroner, confused shaman and disheartened communist, is forced to go on a road trip with Judge Haeng and the Justice Department. While newly pregnant Nurse Dtui and...

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The Coroner’s Lunch 1st January 1970

The Dr Siri Paiboun series by Brit ex-pat Colin Cotterill has been joyously received, both for its humour, and its intriguing historical setting, in newly communist 1970s Laos. The books start when 72-year-old Siri is forced to become the...

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Slash and Burn 1st January 1970

Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’s national coroner, a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty, and wants to...

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Killed at the Whim of a Hat 1st January 1970

Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family-a mother who might be drifting mentally: a grandfather-a retired cop-who rarely talks: a younger brother obsessed with body-building, and a transgendered, former...

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Love Songs from a Shallow Grave 1st January 1970

Septuagenarian Siri Paibun is, the only coroner in Laos and is investigating the death of three Laotian women, who have duelling wounds.

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