“Cotterill’s writing is both evocative and educational.” - Entertainment Weekly “Engrossing…This witty and unusual series just keeps getting better.” - Publishers Weekly “Purely entertaining…Elements of the ritualistic killings are pretty gross and the spooks can be scary but as the author gently points out, life would be dreary without a few thrills.” - New York Times Book Review What a great new series set in Laos, somewhere I've never gone in books, but actually have gone in real life. 'Ok, Colin Cotterill's series just gets better and better as they go along - I'm now besotted with the adventures of the ancient, yet hearty, Dr.Siri and his assistant Dtui. The autopsy provides some surprises, but it is his gifts as a shaman that enable the seventy-three-year-old doctor to discover why the victim was buried alive and to identify the killer. Siri must supervise the disinterment of the body attached to the arm, identify it, and determine the cause of death. Now a major celebration of the new regime is scheduled to take place, but an arm is found protruding from the concrete walk laid from the president’s former cave hideout to his new house beneath the cliffs. Siri Paiboun is summoned to the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current communist government hid in caves, waiting to assume power.

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