Dr Siri Paiboun 03; Disco for the Departed

✍ Scribed by Cotterill, Colin

• Book ID: 107845177
• Publisher: [Côte d’Azur]
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 128 KB
• Series: Dr Siri Paiboun 3
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year, but he’s still as sturdy as a jungle boar – and as crafty as one. Denied the retirement he believes he so richly deserves, Dr Siri is the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s number one coroner. He’s also their only coroner. And although he would never admit it, he’s rather enjoying the job.
· · · Disco for the Departed finds Dr Siri despatched to the country’s newest National Monument: the caves where Laos’ future politburo hid while plotting their revolution. Here, the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a concrete path laid between the President’s former lair and his new mansion has caused an understandable degree of embarrassment.
· · · Quickly and discreetly, Dr Siri must supervise the disinterment of the body attached to the arm, identify it, and determine the cause of death. His autopsy provides some grisly surprises but it is his gifts as a shaman that put the septuagenarian doctor on the trail of the killer.
· · · As Siri and his team close in, they must tackle a marriage proposal, a long walk home, and come face-to-face with a horrific sacrificial ritual. Is it any wonder Dr Siri takes up disco dancing?