Slash and Burn (A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616951788 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 290 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Funny and interesting almagray A refreshing , witty take from a European about his adopted country Laos. Didn't know much about Laos before this series but it is a fascinating country with a fascinating history.. "Long Time No See - But Now Dr Siri is Back!!!!" according to Miki101.Michaela :0))). After the misadventures our admired hero, the Laotian against-his-will-coroner Dr Siri had to suffer in the book Love Songs from a Shallow Grave: A Dr. Siri Mystery he surely deserves an all-expenses-paid holiday trip to the northern mountains of Laos.The more as he is literally counting the hours and minutes to leave his undesired working p. "Here we go again!" according to Phillip Jennings. As an (mostly) airborne resident of Laos for a couple of years--a helicopter pilot for Air America--I've truly enjoyed Cotterill's Laotian characters, descriptions of the country, and his writing style. He knows Laos. He knows the Laotian people. He knows little about the American military and in particular the helicopter world. And I always
Siri series, and it is not easy to cope with the combination of misery and merry melancholy that he employs. A must for series fans."—BooklistPraise for the Dr. This one, the seventh, is the best, but all of them are terrific A delightful mix of history and politics, and an excellent mystery."—The Globe and Mail“It’s a rare treat to say that a book placed so far into a series is the best one. Siri Paiboun will be a gladdening complement to many mystery-reader’s table. If you are unfamiliar with Paiboun works, it is time to crawl out of whatever cave you have been living in." —The Christian
He lives in Chumphon, Thailand, with his wife and six deranged dogs.From the Hardcover edition.. Siri Paiboun series, including The Coroner’s Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth, Disco for the Departed, and Six and a Half Deadly Sins. His fiction has won a Dilys Award and a CWA Dagger in the Library. Colin Cotterill is the author of ten other books in the Dr
So when a member of the party is found dead, Dr. And the stakes are high. And now that he is in his mid-70s, he longs to spend some time with his wife before the untimely death that is sure to befall him, according to the local transvestite fortune-teller. The eighth Dr. Siri Paiboun mysteryDr. Siri suspects it may not have been an accident. Siri get to the bottom of the MIA pilot’s mysterious story before the body count rises and the fortune-teller’s prediction comes true?. But retirement will have to wait (again) until he has completed one last job for the Lao government: supervising an excavation for the remains of a US fighter pilot who went down in the remote northern Lao jungle ten years earlier. Siri never really wanted to be Laos’s national coroner. Can Dr. The presence of American soldiers in Laos is controversial, and the search party includes high-level politicians and scientists