The Coroner's Lunch
by Colin Cotterill
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1847240690
- ISBN 13
- 9781847240699
- Seller
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Meet Dr. Siri Paiboun, the reluctant national coroner of Laos.
Laos, 1975 - The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a seventy-two-year-old Paris-trained doctor, is appointed national coroner. Although he has no training for the job, there is no one else: the rest of the educated class have fled.
He is expected to come up with the answers the party wants, but crafty and charming Dr. Siri is immune to bureaucratic pressure. At his age, he reasons, what can they do to him? And he knows he cannot fail the dead who come into his care without risk of incurring their boundless displeasure. Eternity could be a long time to have the spirits mad at you.
Synopsis
Colin Cotterill was born in London in 1952. He trained as a teacher and worked in Israel, Australia, the US, and Japan before training teachers in Thailand and on the Burmese border. He wrote and produced a language teaching series for Thai national television and spent several years in Laos. Colin is involved in a number of social projects, many to benefit children. With his wife he set up a book and scholarship program in Laos and runs a small school for the children of Burmese migrants near his home. All the while Colin continues with his two other passions: cartooning and writing. Since 2000 he has written over fifteen books, including the Dr. Siri crime series set in Laos. Colin lives in Chumphon in the south of Thailand with his wife where he rides his bicycle along the coast, decapitates coconuts, eats a lot of squid, plays with his dogs, and occasionally sits down to write.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nostalgic Books & Elements (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23coroners2007
- Title
- The Coroner's Lunch
- Author
- Colin Cotterill
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1847240690
- ISBN 13
- 9781847240699
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- fiction mystery suspense thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Spooky Mystery Books;
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