Dr. Siri Paiboun
Colin Cotterill
15 books
Dr. Siri Paiboun is a 72-year-old reluctant national coroner in 1970s Laos, a communist state with almost no resources and even less respect for the dead. Sharp-witted and spiritually haunted — literally, by the souls of the deceased — Siri investigates murders with dark humor and fierce intelligence. The series is a rare gem: part historical mystery, part political satire, entirely unlike anything else in crime fiction.
Reading Order
- 1.Buy
The Coroner's Lunch
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Thirty-Three Teeth
- 3.Buy
Disco for the Departed
- 4.Buy
Anarchy and Old Dogs
- 5.Buy
Curse of the Pogo Stick
- 6.Buy
The Merry Misogynist
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Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
- 8.Buy
Slash and Burn
- 9.Buy
The Woman Who Wouldn't Die
- 10.Buy
The Six and a Half Deadly Sins
- 11.Buy
I Shot the Buddha
- 12.Buy
The Rat Catchers' Olympics
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Don't Eat Me
- 14.Buy
The Second Biggest Nothing
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The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot