Disco for the Departed - Rilegato

Cotterill, Colin

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ISBN 10: 0676978339 ISBN 13: 9780676978339

Casa editrice: Knopf Canada, 2006

Riassunto

Dr. Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current government had hidden out in caves, waiting to assume power. Now, as a major celebration of the new regime is scheduled to take place, an arm is found protruding from the concrete walk that had been laid from the President’s former cave hideout to his new house beneath the cliffs. Dr. Siri is ordered to supervise the disinterment of the body attached to the arm, identify the corpse and discover how he died.

The autopsy provides some surprises but it is his gift as a shaman that enables the seventy-two-year old doctor to discover why the victim was buried alive and, eventually, the identity of his killer.

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“A detective as distinctive as Maigret or Poirot.”
–Orlando Sentinel

Praise for Colin Cotterill:

“A wonderfully fresh and exotic mystery. If Cotterill had done nothing more than treat us to Siri’s views on the dramatic, even comic crises that mark periods of government upheaval, his debut mystery would still be fascinating. But the multiple cases spread out on Siri’s examining table are not cozy entertainments but substantial crimes that take us into the thick of political intrigue.”
–The New York Times

“Cotterill is a crack storyteller and an impressive guide to a little-known culture.”
–The Washington Post

L'autore

Colin Cotterill was born in London in 1952. He has taught in Australia, the U.S. and Japan, and has lived in Thailand, on the Burmese border and in Laos. He lives in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand.

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• Editore: Knopf Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0676978339
• ISBN 13: 9780676978339
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256