The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die
The Dr. Siri Paiboun Series: Book #9
- By: Colin Cotterill
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
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The long-awaitedfollow-up to Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill’sbestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr.Siri
In a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. Awoman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeraland everyone in the village saw her body burned. Then, three days later, shewas back in her house as if she’d never been dead at all. But now she’sclairvoyant and can speak to the dead. That’s why the long-dead brother of a Laogeneral has enlisted her to help his brother uncover his remains, which havebeen lost at the bottom of a river for many years.
Lao national coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun and his wife,Madame Daeng, are sent along to supervise the excavation. It could be a kind ofrelaxing vacation for them, maybe, except Siri is obsessed with the pretty, undeadmedium’s special abilities, and Madame Daeng might be a little jealous. Shedoesn’t trust the woman for some reason. Is her hunch right? What is the groupreally digging for at the bottom of this remote river on the Thai border? Whatwar secrets are being covered up?
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The Dr. Siri Paiboun Series Series
The Coroner’s Lunch
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Laos, 1975. The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a seventy-two-year-old Paris-trained doctor, is appointed national coroner. Although he has no training for the job, there is no one else: the rest of the educated class have fled.
He is expected to come up with the answers the party wants, but crafty... Read more »
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Thirty-Three Teeth
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Feisty Dr. Siri Paiboun is no respecter of persons or party; at his age he feels he can afford to be independent. In this, the second novel in the series, he travels to Luang Prabang, where he communes with the deposed king who is resigned to his fate: it was predicted long ago. And he attends a conference of shamans called by the Communist... Read more »
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Disco for the Departed
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Dr. 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. 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... Read more »
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Anarchy and Old Dogs
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An elderly man has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos. At the age of seventy-three, Siri is too old to be in awe of the new communist bureaucrats for whom he now works. Before he can identify the... Read more »
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Curse of the Pogo Stick
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In Vientiane, Laos, a booby-trapped corpse intended for Dr. Siri, the national coroner, has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui’s intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri’s fiancée.
On his way back from a Communist party meeting in the north, Dr. Siri is... Read more »
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The Merry Misogynist
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1978 in poverty-stricken Laos, a man from the city with a truck was somebody—a catch for even the prettiest village virgin. The corpse of one of these bucolic beauties turns up in Dr. Siri’s morgue, and his curiosity is piqued. The victim was tied to a tree and strangled, but she had not, as the doctor had expected, been raped. And though the... Read more »
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Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Three young Laotian women have died from fencing-sword wounds. Each of them had studied abroad in an Eastern bloc country. Before he can complete his investigation, Dr. Siri is lured to Cambodia by an all-expenses-paid trip. Accused of spying for the Vietnamese, he is imprisoned, beaten, and threatened with death. The Khmer Rouge is relentless,... Read more »
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Slash and Burn
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’ national coroner—a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty and wants to spend some time with his wife before his untimely death, which has been predicted by the local transvestite fortune teller. ... Read more »
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The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The long-awaitedfollow-up to Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill’sbestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr.Siri
In a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. Awoman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeraland everyone in the village saw her... Read more »
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