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Colin Cotterill,Quercus
Few, if any, characters in modern crime fiction can match the benign humour, the gentle wisdom or the sheer bloody-mindedness of Dr Siri Paiboun, septuagenarian chief coroner to the newly…
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Colin Cotterill
A Dr. Siri Investigation set in Laos –Cover.
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Three young Laotian women have died of fencing sword wounds. Each of them had studied abroad in an Eastern bloc country. Accused of spying for the Vietnamese, Dr. Siri is…
After 15 cunning, mischievous, heartbreaking, hilarious, eye-opening, and atmospheric instalments, is this really the last chapter for Dr. Siri Paiboun?
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Dr. Siri and his friend Inspector Phosy have their hands full in the thirteenth installment of Colin Cotterill’s critically acclaimed series.
Thailand, 1996: Supot, a postman with the Royal Thai Postal Service, hates his job. The only bright light in his life is watching classic movies with his best friend, Ali…
A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders - and the ungodly motives behind them
Dr Siri Paiboun and his wife are leaving Laos for Moscow to watch the 1980 Olympic Games in this next book in a popular crime series
An enchanting new standalone novel from CWA Dagger winner Colin Cotterill, set in Bangkok- a mystery without a crime, where the line between fact and fiction blurs, and nothing is…
In Vientiane’s Mahosot Hospital morgue, 73-year-old Dr Siri Paiboun, national coroner of Laos, handles the fatalities at the state hospitals-and the odd murder. His assistants - the gorgeous, clever, fat…
A death threat to Dr. Siri and all his friends sends him down memory lane in the 14th instalment of the acclaimed series.
The good doctor and renowned coroner is taking a holiday. But will he ever return?
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The next instalment in Cotterill’s prize-winning Dr Siri series: Siri’s wife, Madame Daeng, is in grave danger…
As usual, all is abnormal in Dr Siri Paiboun’s morgue in downtown Vientiane. Siri and his team are investigating the case three women skewered by a sword through their hearts…
Dr Siri comes face to face with a serial killer who is as seductive as he is psychopathic.
Laos’ reluctant national coroner, confused psychic, and disheartened communist returns for a second case, employing his forensic skills and spiritual acumen to solve a series of bizarre killings.
Set in Thailand, a new series featuring a crime reporter and the most eccentric family you’ll ever meet from the author of the Dr Siri novels.
In rural Thailand, former crime reporter Jimm Juree must grapple with her quirky family, a mysterious mother and daughter on the lam, and the small matter of a head on…
Reluctant coroner to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Dr Siri Paiboun has been despatched to the country’s mountainous north where the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a…
Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos’ reluctant national coroner, confused psychic, and disheartened communist disproves an old adage and discovers some new tricks, and a plot to overthrow the government.
In the fifth instalment of the delightful Dr Siri series, Laos’ reluctant chief coroner is kidnapped, while his colleagues contend with exploding corpses back at the morgue.
What do you do when you find a severed head on the beach? With her former cop grandfather as back-up, crime reporter Jimm Juree sets out to discover how the…
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A Dr. Siri mystery set in Loas –Cover.
As an escalating war edges into Communist Laos, feisty septugenarian ex-national coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun is preoccupied with another matter- tracing a mysterious message he’s received in the form of…
The next instalment in Cotterill’s acclaimed crime series set in Thailand, featuring reporter Jimm Juree.
The first Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery set in Laos –Cover.
Set in rural Thailand, Killed at the Whim of a Hat is the launch of a brand-new series by the internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Coroner’s Lunch.
John Gartland
Bangkok Beat is a compilation of short stories, interviews, literature reviews and author profiles, plus the previously unpublished history and pictures of the iconic Bangkok cabaret nightclub, Checkinn99 located on…
