Disco for the Departed

Name: Disco for the Departed
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Colin Cotterill
ISBN: 9780857386281

Author: Colin Cotterill

Narrator: Nigel Anthony

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 12/25/2012

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year, but he's still as sturdy as a jungle boar - and as crafty as one. Reluctant coroner to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, he's been despatched to the country's mountainous north where the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a concrete path laid in
front of the President's new mansion has caused an understandable degree of embarrassment. Dr Siri's disinterment and autopsy of the body attached to the arm provide some grisly surprises but it is his gifts as a shaman that put the septuagenarian doctor on the trail of the killer.
As Siri and his team close in, they must tackle a marriage proposal, brave the perils of the life on the open road, and come face-to-face with a horrific sacrificial ritual.
Is it any wonder Dr Siri takes up disco dancing?
(P)2011 Quercus Editions Ltd

About Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill was born in London. He has taught in Australia, the USA and Japan and lived for many years in Laos where he worked for nongovernmental social service organizations. He now writes full-time and lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Reviews

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on May 05, 2023

There is nothing more glorious than the elation of an adventure, setting, and style that are made for us. The skilful Colin Cotterill shows what it was like to be ruled by communism. I was too little to watch the news in the 1980s but have not forgotten a grade 2 student telling me his family escape......more

Goodreads review by Deb on March 14, 2023

While the books in the Dr. Siri Paiboun series are soft crime dramas, there's enough humor inserted to lighten the mood. Set in Laos in the late 1970s, these stories present a world most of us never had an insight into -- at least I never had.......more

Goodreads review by Yeva on February 20, 2015

I've fallen in love with Dr. Siri Paiboun. He's seventy-three in 1977, and I'm a fifty-five year old lesbian, so who's to say it's not a match made in the pages. Still, I find myself identifying with the characters of these books in so many ways. I like the relationships in this series; they remind......more

Goodreads review by William on April 02, 2018

Third in the series and I am comfortable in thinking that Cotterill is using his "allegorical Laoness" to impart some interest and maybe empathy to what has happened to this multi-cultural land-locked country in Southeast Asia. I will definitely go on to the next in the series.......more

Goodreads review by Louise on February 18, 2019

This is a wonderful series. The mysteries are complex, there is always a thread of humour, and there’s a paranormal twist. I’m looking forward to the next one,......more