Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill

Mystery
I am not going to Laos, and this book is why; it's TOO HOT. That aside, go there vicariously with Dr. Siri Paiboun, age 72, the state coroner, in a somewhat surrealistic mystery taking place a year after the 1975 Communist takeover. Naturally there is a corpse or two, lots of bureaucratic red tape, and hidden secrets...all to be solved by Dr. Siri sitting on the river bank talking with his good friend over lunch. The series continues with Disco for the Departed and Thirty-Three Teeth.

Submitted by Linda