Colin Cotterill, Author . Soho $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56947-388-7
Dr. Siri Paiboun of Laos—"reluctant national coroner, confused psychic, [and] disheartened communist"—employs forensic skills and spiritual acumen to solve a series of bizarre killings in Cotterill's quirky, exotic and...
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Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-940-1
In Cotterill’s excellent 13th mystery, set sometime after 1980 in the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos (after 2017’s The Rat Catcher’s Olympics), Dr. Siri Pauboun, the country’s national coroner, and his friend Chief Insp. Phosy Vongvichai, who’s
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Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61695-825-1
In Cotterill’s delightful 12th whodunit starring Dr. Siri Paiboun (after 2016’s I Shot the Buddha), Siri manages to become the medical officer for the 1980 Lao Olympic team, led by his best friend, Comrade Civilai. Of course, Siri’s wife, Madame...
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Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-722-3
In an introductory note, Cotterill warns readers that his highly entertaining 11th novel featuring Laotian coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun (after 2015’s Six and a Half Deadly Sins) is not for those who prefer their “mysteries dull and earthly.” A gripping...
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Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61695-558-8
“On December 25, 1978, the concrete public-address system pole in South That Luang’s Area Six unexpectedly blew itself up, a Lao skirt with a severed finger sewn into the hem passed through the national postal system unchallenged, and Vietnam...
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Colin Cotterill. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-04336-8
Cotterill’s outstanding third Jimm Juree mystery (after 2012’s Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach) opens with an unposted blog entry “found two weeks too late.” Signed with the initials C.C., the text is the first-person account of the slaughter...
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Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-206-8
Cotterill has never been better than in this ninth outing for acerbic Dr. Siri Paiboun (after 2011’s Slash and Burn), set in Laos in October 1978. A judge who heads the country’s public prosecution department asks Siri, who has recently retired as...
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Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-116-0
Set in the summer of 1978, Cotterill’s outstanding eighth mystery starring Laotian coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun (after 2010’s Love Songs from a Shallow Grave) promises to be the series’ last. The 74-year-old Paiboun hopes to stay out of trouble until he
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Colin Cotterill. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-56453-7
At the start of Cotterill's excellent first in a new series, 34-year-old Jimm Juree, who's poised to become only the second female senior crime reporter in all of Thailand, has her professional ambitions dashed when her eccentric mother abruptly...
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Colin Cotterill, Soho Crime, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56947-627-7
Set in 1978, Cotterill's superb seventh mystery to feature Dr. Siri Paiboun (after 2009's The Merry Misogynist) finds "the national and only coroner of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos" nearing his 74th birthday chained to a lead pipe in a...
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Colin Cotterill, Author . Soho Crime $24 (274p) ISBN 978-1-56947-556-0
Setting and character more than compensate for a routine plot in Cotterill's sixth procedural to feature Laos's irreverent 73-year-old national coroner, Dr. Siri Paiboun (after 2008's Curse of the Pogo Stick
). In March 1978, Siri...
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Colin Cotterill, Author . Soho Crime $24 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56947-485-3
In the engaging fifth entry in Cotterill’s unusual crime series set in 1970s Laos (after 2007’s Anarchy and Old Dogs
), members of the Hmong tribe, an oppressed minority, spirit away coroner Siri Paiboun, for whom marriage looms, to aid...
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Colin Cotterill, Author . Soho Crime $23 (272p) ISBN 978-1-56947-463-1
S
et in 1970s Communist Laos, Cotterill's delightful fourth novel to feature Dr. Siri Paiboun, the Laotian national coroner and one of the more eccentric characters in crime fiction, and Paiboun's clever assistant, Nurse Dtui (after 2006�
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Colin Cotterill, Author . Soho $23 (247p) ISBN 978-1-56947-428-0
Set in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos in 1977, Cotterill's engrossing third mystery (after 2005's Thirty-three Teeth
) takes series hero Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 73-year-old national coroner who has recently discovered his shaman...
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Colin Cotterill, Author . Soho $24 (257p) ISBN 978-1-56947-376-4
Confronted by the poisoning of an important official's wife and the sudden appearance of three bodies that may create an international incident between Laos and Vietnam, 72-year-old state coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun keeps his cool in Cotterill's
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Colin Cotterill, read by Jeany Park. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-61174-496-5
When crime reporter Jimm Juree finds herself in a tiny coastal village in Thailand, she thinks her career is over. But soon she’s investigating a murdered abbot and the discovery of two dead hippies who’ve been buried for decades in their van....
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Colin Cotterill. Minotaur, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-56454-4
Cotterill effortlessly merges murder and mirth in his second light mystery featuring crime reporter Jimm Juree (after 2011’s Killed at the Whim of a Hat). Juree, who has reluctantly joined her eccentric family in rural Thailand, channels Bertie...
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Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $26.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-64129-061-6
In 1980, Vientiane, the Laotian capital city, is hosting a celebration of five years of Communist rule, despite the regime’s signal failure to achieve anything, in Cotterill’s exceptional 14th mystery featuring retired Laotian national coroner Siri...
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Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $27.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-64129-435-5
The principal pleasure of Thai postman Supot, the hero of this offbeat standalone set in 1996 from Cotterill (the Dr. Siri Paiboun series), is watching old movies with his friend Ali in the latter’s Bangkok video store. When Supot and Ali discover...
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