Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Mysteries Book 7)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004ZZQ6TU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 542 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said The perfect mystery. I love the Dr. Siri books. Who would have imagined that a hero would be a 75 year old coroner in 1978 communist Laos. But he is just wonderful. I also love all the side characters in these books. How wonderfully they are drawn and develop as the books evolve. Having said that, I hope I interest someone in reading these fine books. You really should read the others first, but in many ways, this could stand by itself. There appears to be a serial killer in Laos, killing women using epees, or fencing swords. He clearly knows fencing and i. WS Lawrence said Five Stars. The whole series is worth the time to read.. 'Somebody must have had a motive.' Dr Siri Paiboun is being tormented by a recurring nightmare which ends in his death. But when he is awake, life goes on in its usual abnormal way in Laos. It's 1978 and Dr Siri is still the only coroner in Laos. Three women, each of whom has studied abroad in an Eastern bloc country, have been skewered on épées. Dr Siri and his trusty band are on the case.But before he can solve the case, Dr Siri takes a trip to Cambodia and the world of the Khmer Rouge. Will Dr Siri survive? And will the case of the three ép&eacut
Siri learns that all three victims studied in Europe and that one of them was being pursued by a mysterious stalker. Though on the surface the Khmer Rouge seem to be committed to the socialist cause, Siri soon learns the horrifying truth of the killing fields and finds himself thrown into prison. Soon two other young women are found killed in the same unusual way. The seventh Dr. Siri, the reluctant national coroner for the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is brought in to examine the body. Siri Paiboun mysteryWhen a Lao female security officer is discovered stabbed through the heart with a fencing sword, Dr. Can the seventy-four-year-old doctor escape with his life?<
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This immensely satisfying mystery has it all--a heroic protagonist, a challenging puzzle, and an exotic setting. Siri's captivity is wrapped around investigating the puzzling deaths of three Laotian women, each skewered by dueling swords that are a decided rarity in Laos. Siri Paiboun (after 2009's The Merry Misogynist) finds "the national and only coroner of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos" nearing his 74th birthday chained to a lead pipe in a Cambodian prison. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . The unfathomable violence of the Khmer Rouge reign emerges during Siri's unexpected ordeal and forms a vivid contrast to his humanity in seeking to protect the murder suspect in the three sword dea