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The seventh Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery
When a Lao female security officer is discovered stabbed through the heart with a fencing sword, Dr. Siri, the reluctant national coroner for the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is brought in to examine the body. Soon two other young women are found killed in the same unusual way. Siri learns that all three victims studied in Europe and that one of them was being pursued by a mysterious stalker. But before he can solve the case, he is whisked away to Cambodia on a diplomatic mission. Though on the surface the Khmer Rouge seem to be committed to the socialist cause, Siri soon learns the horrifying truth of the killing fields and finds himself thrown into prison. Can the seventy-four-year-old doctor escape with his life?
Ebook Love Songs from a Shallow Grave A Dr Siri Paiboun Mystery Colin Cotterill Books
"Siri ends up in Cambodia on a diplomatic mission. Young women are being stabbed through the heart by a sword. He has lots to solve in this story. I find it interesting that there is a coroner in Laos. To cut people who are dead open, releases the bad Pi according to the beliefs of the Lao.
However, I do love this series. It brings back memories of my time there. I spent 7 1/2 years working for a medical foundation in Laos during the Vietnam War. I should write my own book."
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Love Songs from a Shallow Grave A Dr Siri Paiboun Mystery Colin Cotterill Books Reviews :
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave A Dr Siri Paiboun Mystery Colin Cotterill Books Reviews
- Siri ends up in Cambodia on a diplomatic mission. Young women are being stabbed through the heart by a sword. He has lots to solve in this story. I find it interesting that there is a coroner in Laos. To cut people who are dead open, releases the bad Pi according to the beliefs of the Lao.
However, I do love this series. It brings back memories of my time there. I spent 7 1/2 years working for a medical foundation in Laos during the Vietnam War. I should write my own book. - The entire Dr. Siri series is quite well written. Almost every book has a very good story line. The characters are very well developed and the mysteries are well thought out and fun to read.
Partly because these series take place in an Eastern country (Laos) there is that whole supernatural element to them. The main character (Dr. Siri) hosts a thousand year old Shaman in his body. Now, if you can't get over having to accept that, you should definitely skip reading these books because that part is central to all of them. I thought that it might bother me but the way the author introduces this fact and weaves it into the story, makes you kind of just go with it. I now find that it doesn't bother me at all and in fact, adds to the story.
Ironically, what's more unbelievable for me is that a 73 year old can do all the things Dr. Siri does, suffer such horrible injuries and just keep going. Having parents in that age range, it seems to me very unlikely that people of that age could bounce back so quickly from all the various injuries Dr. Siri sustains.
Be that as it may, these books are all definitely worth reading. Not only are they great stories, they have taught me so much about Laos, it's culture and its history, something I knew absolutely nothing about. I read some reviews saying that the books are propaganda or re-writing of history. My thought is that you read historical fiction to get a feel for the country, culture, habits, etc., and if you want an accurate history, you read a few historical books and make up your own mind. This author's portrayal of the US-Laos conflict is not God's word and I don't think he expects it to be!
Overall, I recommend this entire series. - Another terrific book in the Siri Paiboun series from Colin Cotterill. I don't know which to praise first, but let's start with this book. The story interweaves two plots--one has the septegunarian, former revolutionary, Dr. Siri and his expanding team of fellow sleuths on the track of a serial killer whose chosen weapon is a fencing sword; the second has Dr. Siri in grave jeopardy at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime in newly communist Cambodia (Kampuchea). Both story lines are intelligent, intricate and totally engaging, and generally add up to a darker and more poignant novel than most of the previous Dr. Siri books. While there is little doubt that Siri and company will resolve the mystery of the murders, there is considerable doubt that Siri will survive execution as a spy by the vicious and politically cannibalistic Khmer Rouge. This is one of the best books in a very good series with a world-class story-line and characters that have melded into a literary family in this episode.
Moving on to the author, Colin Cotterill, his writing cannot be overpraised, in my opinion. He has developed some wonderful characters in a remote part of the globe and in a rather obscure period of time (for most Western readers, at least) circa 1977-78. But he has made the whole pastiche work beautifully and has certainly given a voice to a small and neglected segment of the world's population. He obviously has great admiration and respect--mixed with a healthy dose of realism--for the Laotian people as well as an impressive knowledge of the recent history of Indochina. But Cotterill could write wonderfully insightful fiction from just about anywhere, I suspect. His style is mature, his language clear and his sense of humanity for his characters is unfailing. This is a writer with a long and successful future ahead--part of which I sincerely hope will continue to include Dr. Siri Painboun.
Great read. Highly recommended. - Colin Cotterill certainly does not follow a formula in constructing his excellent mysteries featuring Laotian septuagenarian coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun. This installment has two main threads, one which is told in the first-person, present tense by Siri who is imprisoned in Cambodia, and the other the mystery of three similar homicides that started before Siri’s trip with his friend Civilai to Cambodia, which is told in the third person and involves Siri and his menagerie of interesting colleagues and companions. The two stories come together as Siri thinks of the mystery back in Laos to distract himself from torture and mistreatment in Cambodia and as Inspector Phosy ponders Siri’s advice/concerns and pursues the case in his absence. A theme tying the two streams together is the bureaucratic investigation in Laos of whether Siri warrants official hero status while in Laos he is demonstrating, at least to the reader, that he definitely is a hero. Colin Cotterill is a delight as a writer because of the originality of each book as well as his continuing development of excellent characters and his witty description of their interactions and somewhat nonsensical events. Nevertheless, this book is dark in its telling of the brutality of the Khmer Rouge--a lesson worth remembering.
