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The Coroner's Lunch

by Colin Cotterill

The Coroner's Lunch

Hardcover, 257 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $24 | purchase

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Seventy-two-year-old Dr. Siri Paiboun, a coroner in Laos, confronts shamans, dreams, conversations with the dead, and an international cover-up, in his attempts to solve a series of murders of Vietnamese soldiers and the wife of a party leader.

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Book Bag: Laos as Character in 'The Coroner's Lunch'

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates talks with author Colin Cotterill about his new novel The Coroner's Lunch. Cotterill says the book's setting, the People's Republic of Laos during the country's transition to a communist regime in the mid-1970s, inspired the unique cultural experiences and viewpoint of its hero, an aging doctor thrust into the middle of a murder mystery.

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