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Colin Cotterill
Dr. Siri and his friend Inspector Phosy have their hands full in the thirteenth installment of Colin Cotterill’s critically acclaimed series.
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NEW SECOND EDITION
16 Colin Cotterill illustrated short stories first published in 2009
INCLUDES THE DR. SIRI STORY, HAS ANYONE SEEN MRS. LIGHTSWITCH?
This delightful collection of short stories takes…
A Dr. Siri Investigation set in Laos –Cover.
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The premise to this book is simple. What if, since the beginning of time, and a few weeks before, every living creature had access to a cell phone? What if…
The long-awaited follow-up to Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill’s bestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr. Siri In a small Lao village…
The long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s Slash & Burn and the ninth installment in Cotterill’s bestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr. Siri.
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…
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…
A Dr. Siri mystery set in Loas –Cover.
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…
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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…
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…
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
A death threat to Dr. Siri and all his friends sends him down memory lane in the 14th instalment of the acclaimed series.
From the Author of the Dr. Siri Mysteries
New in print, the complete Jimm Juree short stories feature Colin Cotterill's intrepid Thai amateur lady detective. They were first published individually…
After 15 cunning, mischievous, heartbreaking, hilarious, eye-opening, and atmospheric instalments, is this really the last chapter for Dr. Siri Paiboun?
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…
The first Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery set in Laos –Cover.
A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders - and the ungodly motives behind them
The next instalment in Cotterill’s acclaimed crime series set in Thailand, featuring reporter Jimm Juree.
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.
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 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.
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.
Dr. Siri Paiboun is summoned to the mountains of Huaphan Province, where a celebration of the new communist regime is scheduled to take place, but an arm is found protruding…
Dr. Siri and the morgue team seek to discover what happened to a stoned airman downed ten years earlier. Did he survive? Who is eliminating the last people to see…
On his way back from a Communist party meeting, Dr. Siri is kidnapped by Hmong villagers so that he will, in the guise of the thousand-year-old shaman with whom he…
When the corpse of a beautiful young woman turns up in Dr. Siri’s morgue, his curiosity is piqued. The victim was tied to a tree and strangled but not raped…
Three young Laotian women have died from fencing sword wounds. Before he can complete his investigation, Dr. Siri is lured to Cambodia by an all-expenses-paid trip. Accused of spying, he…
An elderly man is run down by a logging truck near the post office. His body is taken to Dr. Siri Paiboun’s morgue, but before Siri can identify the corpse…
As a series of mutilated corpses arrives in Dr. Siri Paiboun’s morgue, and Nurse Dtui is menaced, Dr. Siri must use all his powersforensic and shamanicto discover the creature that…
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.
Since Jimm Juree moved, under duress, with her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she has missed her career as a journalist. In Chiang Mai…
With a major storm headed their way and a potential serial killer on the loose, it looks like journalist Jimm Juree, her eccentric family, and the whole town of Maprao…
