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The Coroner's Lunch - A Dr Siri Murder Mystery (Paperback)
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The Coroner's Lunch - A Dr Siri Murder Mystery (Paperback)
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Laos, 1976. The monarchy has been deposed, the Communist Pathet Lao
have taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but Dr Siri
Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor remains. And so this 72-year-old
physician is appointed state coroner, despite having no training,
equipment, experience or even inclination for the job. But the
job's not that bad and Siri quickly settles into a routine of
studying outdated medical texts, scrounging scarce supplies, and
circumnavigating bureaucratic red tape to arrive at justice. The
fact that the recently departed are prone to pay Siri the odd,
unwanted nocturnal visit turns out to be an added bonus in his new
line of work. But when the wife of a party leader turns up dead and
the bodies of tortured Vietnamese soldiers start bobbing to the
surface of a Laotian lake, all eyes turn to Siri. Faced with
official cover-ups and an emerging international crisis, the doctor
enlists old friends, village shamans, forest spirits, dream visits
from the dead - and even the occasional bit of medical deduction -
to solve the crimes.
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