The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (934 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616952970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A woman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeral and everyone in the village saw her body burned. Lao national coroner Dr. That's why the long-dead brother of a Lao general has enlisted her to help his brother uncover his remains, which have been lost at the bottom of a river for many years. Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, are sent along to supervise the excavation. But now she's clairvoyant, and can speak to the dead. The long-awaited follow-up to 2011's Slash & Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill's bestselling mystery seri
Colin Cotterill is the Dilys Award-winning author of nine books in the Dr. Siri Paiboun series: The Coroner's Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth, Disco for the Departed, Anarchy and Old Dogs, Curse of the Pogo Stick, The Merry Misogynist, Love Songs from a Shallow Grave, and Slash & Burn, and The Woman Who Wouldn't Die. He lives in Chumphon, Thailand, with his wife
The road to those remains is circuitous, as is everything in communist-ruled Laos. It winds through the belief of the surviving brother of a long-dead Lao general that his brother’s remains can be found through the clairvoyance of the woman of the title, a woman whom people saw burned on a funeral pyre but who appears again in the village with enhanced clairvoyant powers. It also winds through the suspicion that the excavation for the dead general’s remains may really be in service of
Great read Love his sense of charactersa seventy year old super hero. You do not have to be James Bond to utterly entertaining. Bravo Mr Cotterill.. Good read. Start zeries from beginning iheartnazareth I love collin cotterill. Have enjoyed all his books. "Dr. Siri may be finally out of the Morgue" according to Miki101.Michaela :0))). but surely not out of the Job!After the shutdown of the Morgue of the Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane/Laos Dr. Siri would be happy to enjoy his long aspired retirement together with his wife, Madame Daeng.But fate has other intensions in mind for the two elderly lovers.Siri's nemesis Judge Haeng has a proposal for him: A full-paid trip to Sanyaburi province which borders Thailand, to watch the boat races at Pak Lai.Dr. Siri is obviously very skeptical - his last "state-financed" trip took him and his nearest into the middle of a massacreBut this time